Darkbloom, which allowed Mac users to rent out their GPUs for AI inference, warns of low payouts

Declining token prices have prompted Darkbloom, a distributed inference network, to reassess its business plans.Darkbloom, a project from Seattle-based tech biz Eigen Labs, has developed software that allows anyone with a sufficiently capable macOS device to rent their GPU through the Darkbloom network for interference jobs. In return, they get paid.Through this network, 800 or so participants – including as of two days ago this reporter – have been able to collect a few cents to a few dollars per day by having their hardware handle AI model prompts submitted through OpenRouter, an AI model gateway.In theory, someone running one of Apple's recently released Mac minis with an M5 Pro chip and 64 GB of RAM could earn as much as $192 per...

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