Run a node. Help build open AI.
c0mpute pools spare CPUs and GPUs from ordinary machines into one open network. One command turns your box into a node that serves inference, transcoding and storage jobs.
The goal is 100,000 nodes. At that size the network has enough capacity to train and serve open-weight models in the open, on hardware owned by the people running it, instead of leaving frontier AI to a handful of companies. That is the mission, not a claim about today.
10 nodes online now (3 with a GPU)goal: 100,000
Counted live from signed node adverts. → see every node
$ curl -fsSL https://c0mpute.com/install.sh | shThe installer starts the worker for you (a systemd service where it can, otherwise a background daemon). Check it with c0mpute worker status. No account and no port forwarding needed to join. → what running a node involves · invite people with your own link
Here to buy compute instead? → submit a job · explore the network · read the protocol
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Describe the job
Workload, deadline, trust level, validation, max price. You never name a machine.
2.
The network finds providers
Capability discovery, then competitive signed offers from providers that qualify.
3.
Pay for accepted work
Validation, then settlement, then a signed receipt you can verify yourself.
You do not pick a server, a region, or a vendor unless you want to. You state constraints; your own client — or a gateway you chose — picks an offer that satisfies them.
$ c0mpute login
$ c0mpute worker register
$ c0mpute worker start --gpu$ c0mpute transcode submit input.mov --preset hls
$ c0mpute infernet chat --model qwen2.5:7b "hello"$ c0mpute update # check for + apply new release
$ c0mpute uninstall --all # remove c0mpute and peer binariesEvery record on the network — provider adverts, job manifests, offers, receipts — carries its own signature, so it stays verifiable after it leaves the wire. Your identity is a keypair you generate locally, with no account anywhere.
Indexers and gateways can cache, proxy and bill. None of them is authoritative. If c0mpute.com disappears, c0mpute keeps computing.
This site speaks WebMCP. A browser AI agent can call c0mpute tools directly — c0mpute_list_plugins, c0mpute_network_status, c0mpute_latest_release, c0mpute_install_command — no scraping.