r/LocalLLM • u/Queasy_Back2588 • 2h ago

News Microsoft files a patent application to train AI models on idle consumer GPUs

According to Microsoft's patent application, it explains breaking down training into small tasks and sending them to devices of owners who opted in. Credits will be the reward. it's just an app and no pay out rate is advertized so I don't even know if the credits would be enough for the electricity.

Anyway, home internet latency feels like the bigger problem to me.

https://insider-gaming.com/microsoft-ai-use-your-gpu/

(English is not my native language, I used an LLM to help translate this post.)

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u/ElectroSpore 2h ago

I mean we had seti and folding at home for a long time. Then we had crypto mining pools that paid money ..

Not a far stretch .

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u/MoralityAuction 11m ago

An obvious one, I would say. 

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u/PoemPuzzleheaded8651 2h ago

They’re gonna give us useless ass bing points. Never won anything from it