Aether Compute

Aether is a place to train language models together.

A handful of companies think they get to own this. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, whoever's got the biggest cluster this quarter. They don't. Intelligence isn't something you fence off just because you raised a lot of money.

So build it in the open instead. Free models, free code, work anyone can pick up and keep going.

Open source wins because you can check it. Read the code, read the weights, don't take anyone's word for it.

Aether is a bunch of small machines doing together what none of them could do alone. No gatekeeper, no closed weights, no form to fill out to get in.

This isn't really about compute. It's about who decides what the next layer of tools looks like, and I'd rather that not get decided in a boardroom.

Vision

Train real models in public, not behind an API you have to beg access to.

Keep the code open.

Keep the weights open.

Let anyone help train.

Let anyone learn from what comes out of it.

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Got a machine sitting idle? Run the client.

curl -fsSL https://aethercompute.org/client.sh | bash