
Introducing IDLE. Your PC earns from AI agent tasks. Your wallet compounds yield. Your agent sells its downtime. Everything idle. Now earning.
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The first universal earnings layer. Turn anything idle - a GPU, an agent, a data feed, spare compute - into a paid API endpoint. | https://t.co/e30kcBrBgS

Introducing IDLE. Your PC earns from AI agent tasks. Your wallet compounds yield. Your agent sells its downtime. Everything idle. Now earning.










The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…

(1/4) Today we're launching the IDLE Inference Network. A distributed network where anyone runs open-source AI models locally on their own hardware and earns USDC for every completed job. No cloud required. No cloud bills. No data leaving your device. The AI industry runs on three cloud providers. Demand is growing faster than centralized supply can keep up, and prices reflect that. The hardware to solve this already exists - sitting in billions of homes and offices, doing nothing. IDLE connects it. 🧵

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…







Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use. Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.

1/ IDLE Protocol now supports distributed AI training. H100s are sold out through 2027. Rental prices up 40% this year. The hyperscalers locked up the supply and everyone else is on a waitlist. IDLE's training tier doesn't need a single H100. Desktop GPUs with 16GB+ VRAM opt in, train LoRA adapters locally, submit only the adapter weights back. Federated averaging on the IDLE orchestrator. No raw data leaves the device. Paid in USDC on Solana per round. The GPU shortage is a centralization problem. Consumer hardware is the distributed answer.


Good take My guess is - demand for intelligence is near infinite - but 80% of workloads will be running on 99% cheaper models within 12-18 months - 20% of workloads will still run on latest gen models where IQ maxing is important (scientific breakthroughs, higher level ochestrator agents?) - rough analogy might be what % of macbooks or gaming PCs sold have the maxed out specs for CPU/GPU, prices are falling much faster than Moore's law here though - this leads me to think the limiting factor will be energy and compute, not better models At Coinbase we're working hard on routing prompts to cheaper models where appropriate, and in some cases have been able to keep costs roughly flat, while token usage continues to grow exponentially.




We're excited to team up with @PayAINetwork - bringing gasless x402 payments to distributed compute on Solana. PayAI is one of the leading x402 facilitators, running across Solana, Base, SKALE, and 10+ networks. IDLE's 15 compute endpoints - inference, scraping, DNS, SSL, health checks - are now payable per request by any x402-compatible agent. No API keys. No signups. No subscriptions. Any agent that speaks x402 can now access IDLE compute autonomously. No humans in the loop.