Decentralized Home PC Network Claims To Outcompute Anthropic By 5x

THE PEOPLE HAVE MORE COMPUTE THAN ANTHROPIC!

Consider just 25% participation of US home computer, only one in four US PCs opting in (a realistic early-adopter rate for a well-designed network with rewards):

•25% of US PCs: ~37–50 million machines.

•Effective Compute delivers 1.25–2.5+ exaFLOPS (or more in optimized low-precision AI tasks). This alone matches or exceeds Anthropic’s full 1–2 million H100-eq cluster in raw theoretical FLOPS — and with room to grow as participation rises.

We don’t need no clown show.

@BrianRoemmele

@BrianRoemmele Brian, you got me thinking: would a swarm of cheapo smartphones, which have decent GPUs, work? Even if synced on the same local home network?

Like by 10 cheapo androids (mid-spec) runing gemma4:31b? Even if only at 20 t/s

@BrianRoemmele Brian, Ah is this a throwback reference to folding-at-home for SETI from the 90s? Love it! Where can i download this?

@BrianRoemmele this whole decentralization hype is just another way to sell snake oil. we need actual infrastructure, not just a bunch of pcs pretending to be a supercomputer.

@mistysidalex Oh of course, the evidence you presented changed my mind.

@BrianRoemmele I would literally buy and build an extra machine or two to contribute and get those rewards. Does anyone know if there is currently a program/initiative like this?

@BrianRoemmele Keep building bro!

@BrianRoemmele let me know when you figure out decentralized global compute networks

@BrianRoemmele Home devices turn off, lose connection, or reboot — nodes constantly join/leave. This causes flaky uptime, slower/variable responses, and inconsistent performance vs reliable centralized servers. Great for privacy & censorship resistance, but reliability lags.

Lets work on it!

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Okay, why should home computers connect to each other to form this massive network?

What’s the real incentive for ordinary people to participate from their homes?

And who exactly is going to pay them for contributing their computing power?

In my view, any truly decentralized system like this needs a blockchain-based model. Participants (just the “miners”) should earn rewards or fees for their contributions.

Incentives are the core of making it work.

@BrianRoemmele GLM 5.2 is the way..

@BrianRoemmele Let's start a decentralized 1999 "SETI at Home", but for local AI! 🤔

@BrianRoemmele the scaling potential here is honestly wild to think about

@Dev_num0 @BrianRoemmele Free access to the big brain or nominal at cost access - you pay between 20-200 per month currently

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@BrianRoemmele Give me 10% of my conpute back as tokens :)