Boundless taps idle crypto GPUs to cut AI inference costs
Boundless Network Inc., a distributed computing company that built its graphics processing unit network to generate zero-knowledge proofs for the cryptocurrency industry, is expanding its network toward artificial intelligence inference, the process of providing responses to AI queries.
The company said today it will open its network of about 4,000 GPUs to AI workloads and run it as managed inference infrastructure. A full product launch is planned for later this summer.
Boundless assembled the network over the past four years to meet transaction-proving demand in crypto, work that required pooling GPU supply, scheduling compute-heavy jobs and getting scattered machines to act as a single reliable system. It is now tuning that same coordination layer for AI.
The pitch rests on where AI spending is heading. Gartner Inc. expects inference to eat up 55% of AI-optimized infrastructure-as-a-service spending this year and more than 65% by 2029. The more models a company puts into production, the more that inference bill decides how much it can actually run.
