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The world’s largest AI cloud has been sitting in people’s homes this whole time.
Millions of Macs sit idle most of the day, already paid for, already capable, and doing nothing but drawing a trickle of standby power.
So we built Malibu.
Malibu puts Apple Silicon to work serving open models through one OpenAI-compatible API.
Developers get lower inference cost while Mac owners earn USDC from hardware they already own.
We believe powerful machines should do useful work, and the people who own them should share in the value they create.
Learn more about Malibu with the resources below.
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275.03M tokens served and more than 205K requests routed through Malibu so far
The network keeps expanding as more Apple Silicon comes online 🌅
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Follow the Malibu network as it runs ↓
malibu.tech/network/
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Why @base fits what we're building 🟦
"Base brought a niche technology, a niche product, to the masses."
"They brought crypto to people, told the story of how to use it, what's the benefit."
"Being on Base is the right move for us to be building and to bring AI to more people, in a way that Coinbase did with crypto." - @_aug11_
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"We launched a working network. We have nodes, providers, we have buyers."
"The network is running. It's still small, but we are limiting it because we need to take care of many moving parts at the same time."
"We are optimizing both the buyer's experience and the Apple Mac owner's experience." - @_aug11_
This stage helps us learn when providers can serve, how much idle time they have, and how to make both sides of our network work together.
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"You have your two-room apartment. You use one room. The other room can be rented to other people."
Our co-founder Augustus uses Airbnb to explain what participation can feel like when asked what he'd tell an idle Mac owner:
"If you joined Airbnb, that made you feel like a hotel owner."
"For Malibu, the story is similar. You become part of something big, and in a way, you become an AI provider." - @_aug11_
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"What we track is the amount of tokens we serve, the number of requests the network gets, and the overall capacity."
"The models are being upgraded. We're adding new models almost every day."
"Once we are ready to take in more providers, to go to the 100–1,000 level, the numbers will be a different story." - @_aug11_
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"The biggest Malibu takeaway from the next year is how successful we are in building the provider side."
"We have a roadmap on which we want to execute and build more capabilities, more services, more features."
"In terms of numbers, if it's 1,000 or 10,000, it will be a very big success." - @_aug11_
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"Switching is very easy. It's just a change of a couple of lines in your stack."
"We built it around there being less friction for you as a buyer."
"You can be a user of the models, but also use your hardware to provide a service to the network." - @_aug11_
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Another 58.68M tokens served since our last check-in.
More compute, more inference moving through Malibu 🌅
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See the latest Malibu network numbers ↓
malibu.tech/network/
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