@Saccc_c: Universities, enterprises, and AI professional users can now own dedicated GPU servers at a lower barrier? And you can earn income without having to operate it yourself? There are currently two main ways to purchase AI compute: the first is renting from cloud vendors, with obvious drawbacks—prices are dictated by GPU supply and demand and are very unstable; the second is buying a whole machine, but...
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B3 Labs has released B3IQ, allowing universities, enterprises, and AI professional users to purchase and host NVIDIA GPU servers in installments with a 30% down payment. When idle, the computing power can be rented out for income, which can be used to offset the purchase price or as direct earnings. It has already been used by Stanford, NYU, and many other universities.
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Universities, enterprises, and AI professional users can now own dedicated GPU servers at a lower barrier to entry — and without having to manage it themselves, they can still earn returns?
Currently, there are two main ways to purchase AI compute: the first is renting from cloud providers, which has a clear downside — pricing is determined by GPU supply and demand, making it highly volatile; the second is buying a complete system, but for most institutions and individuals, that’s expensive and not cost-effective.
But now there’s a brand-new model that not only supports installment payments with a down payment of just 30%, but also lets you earn extra income and cover payments by leasing out idle compute — and the best part is, you can handle everything through a website, with no need for manual operations.
This is B3IQ, just released by B3 Labs on August 11: it allows AI professional users to own their own GPU servers.
Specifically, B3IQ users can purchase dedicated NVIDIA GPU systems through installment payments. These systems are manufactured in the U.S. by Andromeda, an American AI systems manufacturer backed by B3 Labs, and hosted in Oregon.
Most importantly, owners can precisely match idle compute with market demand to monetize their computing power. The resulting earnings can be used to offset remaining payments for the system, or kept directly as income.
What’s more, B3IQ makes all of this open and transparent — you can head to the official website right now and try out their earnings calculator, which is very easy to use.
See the image below — you can select the rental duration, and B3IQ will estimate pessimistic, conservative, and optimistic earnings based on the latest market prices, with detailed returns clearly displayed.
Official website portal: https://b3iq.org
B3 (@b3labs): Introducing B3IQ.
A new model to own, run and monetize compute.
Already being used by faculty, researchers, and student teams at Stanford, NYU, Penn, UChicago, Dartmouth, Waterloo, and the University of Hawaiʻi.
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