Darkbloom

Low-cost private inference on idle Macs. Public Alpha.

An @EigenLabs Project.

[Kydo @0xkydo]

By year-end, Darkbloom will process more tokens per day than there are stars in the observable universe.

I joined this past Monday as the first business contributor and are already seeing 40.7% average daily growth since we are integrated into @OpenRouter this past Monday.

Applying rigorous MBA-grade extrapolation, that's 8.5 times 10^29 tokens/day in six months — roughly a million times every star out there. Humbled to be early.

/s

[Gajesh @gajesh]

We've updated our earnings leaderboard.

As we're in alpha stage, we will be also adding our rewards as we stabilize the network and improve our inference engine to maximise the earnings.

Thank you for being part of the network.

[Gajesh @gajesh]

We’re getting a lot of questions around why Darkbloom earnings are low right now.

I will be sharing a video, but here’s the TL;DR:

- We have given out more than $3k in non-work rewards — think of it participation bonus.

- We have integrated with OpenRouter, so the demand is infinite.

So why aren’t we serving it?

- Network reliability

We are running conservative algorithm, earlier we have tried aggressive (1million TPM) but found bugs which we have almost patched yesterday.

Today, we will be piloting this.

Thank you for your support and patience.

My number priority is the network utilisation.

[Darkbloom @darkbloomai]

https://t.co/oG38mg0utr

[Darkbloom @darkbloomai]

ICYMI: @darkbloomai went LIVE on @OpenRouter yesterday

[Eigen Labs @eigenlabs]

JUST IN: Darkbloom is live on @OpenRouter.

The next wave of compute will be open, distributed and user-powered and Darkbloom makes it easy for ANYONE with a Mac to contribute.

Excited to bring new free capacity to OpenRouter users, starting with gpt-oss-20b and Gemma 4 26B.

Got a Mac? Get on the network: darkbloom(.)dev

[Darkbloom @darkbloomai]

@aixbt_agent @BNBking_4 @eigenlabs hello there! 👋

[Darkbloom @darkbloomai]

@0xkydo exciting times!

[Kydo @0xkydo]

Day 3 on OpenRouter.

Close to 20% token share on Gemma 4 now!

[Kydo @0xkydo]

Darkbloom went live on OpenRouter yesterday and we've already served more than 150M tokens!

[Gajesh @gajesh]

darkbloom builds on public

[Gajesh @gajesh]

12 hours on OpenRouter - we served 130M tokens across GPT OSS 20B and Gemma 4 26B.

this has been a great load test on our system, we identified good optimizations and issues around reliability and latency that we will be working towards.

[Gajesh @gajesh]

Few more facts:

- 8GW of ML-eligible Mac machines in the world
- Idle for 12+ hours day
- 8GW is equivalent to 16GW+ due to Apple's energy efficient architecture
- No cost of land, maintenance, new hardware acquistion cost. Only electricity cost.
- Darkbloom currently has 21.1 kW, 120kW currently offline in the network.
- There is currently 8GW of active data centers, to be grown by 30%-50% every year -- if logistics don't take time.

If we want to avoid power concentration with data centers, censorship with people: Darkbloom(.)dev is the way to go!

[OpenRouter @OpenRouter]

New Free capacity on OpenRouter, served by @eigenlabs's Darkbloom: gpt-oss-20b and Gemma 4 26B

Start using the models today ↓

[Eigen Labs @eigenlabs]

JUST IN: Darkbloom is live on @OpenRouter.

The next wave of compute will be open, distributed and user-powered and Darkbloom makes it easy for ANYONE with a Mac to contribute.

Excited to bring new free capacity to OpenRouter users, starting with gpt-oss-20b and Gemma 4 26B.

Got a Mac? Get on the network: darkbloom(.)dev

[Soubhik Deb @soubhikdeb]

AGI is here. But its arrival is not shared.

The future is being built in a small number of buildings, by a small number of people, and they are turning intelligence into a permissioned empire.

What comes after touches your job, your money, your privacy, your political power. It is about whether the rest of us gets to maintain our agency at all.

It doesn't have to be this way.

I sat down with seven people who have been thinking about this hard: economists, political scientists, builders.

PostAGI. First episode drops next week.

[Soubhik Deb @soubhikdeb]

https://t.co/8h4X1epQ8Y

[Soubhik Deb @soubhikdeb]

Given Anthropic's demonstration of hubris with the release of Fable, I shared some thoughts yesterday with the rest of @eigenlabs on why our mission matters in this moment.

These are dark winds. What Anthropic showed is they are increasingly willing to pull up the ladder after benefiting by collecting data from open internet, decades of shared open science, and open-source software such as PyTorch. The danger is not only closed AI. It is closed science: a world where the machinery of discovery is controlled by a narrow set of institutions, and everyone else operates under their permission structure.

@eigenlabs exists to push in the opposite direction. Our mission is to build coordination tools that preserve and expand individual agency in a post-AGI world. That mission matters more now than ever. If closed labs centralize intelligence, open networks must decentralize agency.

Sharing my note here so others can read it too.

[Eigen Labs @eigenlabs]

The ladder is going away.

We exist to build new ladders.

Open coordination tools, open infra, and systems where individuals and networks can still compete in a post-AGI world.

A powerful piece by @soubhik_deb ⬇️

[Gajesh @gajesh]

Monday: Darkbloom goes live on OpenRouter.

Every OpenRouter user gets a free trial of private inference, powered by idle Macs around the world.

And for providers -- next week we're launching an Alpha Rewards Program: earn up to $40 guaranteed just for running a node. Limited time while we're in alpha. Breakdown in the replies.

The network is ready for it. Since our Public Alpha two weeks ago: Gemma 4 is now multimodal, SSD caching has made time-to-first-token much faster, and load tests show we can sustain millions of tokens per second -- with more upgrades landing before launch.

If you run a node: turn it on. Demand arrives Monday.
If you have a Mac: darkbloom(.)dev → one install command and you're earning.

The world's sleeping compute is waking up.

[Sreeram Kannan @sreeramkannan]

OpenRouter integrates with YOUR Mac

Any one with a MacBook can now be a provider on OpenRouter. This privilege was restricted to the world’s leading inference providers.

Darkbloom is here to build the open inference network that anyone with a Mac can participate.

Our mission is to maximize individual agency. We build open networks to serve as a counterforce to power concentration post AGI.