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Darkbloom: Decentralized AI Inference on Idle Apple Silicon Macs
Darkbloom, an Eigen Labs research initiative, routes AI inference requests to idle Apple Silicon Macs, targeting the estimated 100 million units that sit idle more than 75% of the time. Apple's unified memory architecture lets a $3,000 Mac match a $15,000+ GPU server at 30W versus 700W, enabling Darkbloom to price output tokens at roughly half of OpenRouter rates while returning 95% of consumer payments to node operators. The security model mirrors Apple Private Cloud Compute, using Secure Enclave hardware keys, code-signed binaries with SHA-256 attestation, and SIP verification every five minutes.
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