quick thesis on @AskSurplus:
surplus is a inference marketplace where people can sell their excess inference which normally just expires and goes to waste
the buyer is basically anyone doing any type of llm usage hermes agent openclaw etc or medium sized ai teams that cant get insane grants from openai or anthropic so their only other option is going to openai/anthropic directly
surplus fixes this as most of these new models are atleast 60% off so teams can get 3-5x as much inference for the same price
It just makes alot of sense i use surplus every single day for my hermes agent
main competitor is openrouter they recently raised at 1.1b val 2 weeks ago