告诉HN：Pearl的“实用”PoW AI挖矿是虚假产品
大家好，为了进一步通过愚蠢和贪婪来抬高GPU价格，似乎目前某些实体正在试图重燃GPU挖矿的热潮。他们试图将工作量证明（PoW）重新包装成一种有用的AI计算形式，但最终得到的似乎只是虚假宣传和空中楼阁。
有间接证据表明，包括NVIDIA和Together AI在内的某些公司以某种方式参与了这一过程。
Together AI在自己的GPU上进行大规模语言模型（LLM）推理。Together AI通过$PRL（Pearl）的利润来补贴这些推理，但在Pearl网络中的矿工并没有进行实际的推理。他们只是穿着AI外衣在进行无用的工作量证明。“有用”只是一种虚假宣传，但更多的计算浪费、更多的贪婪和更高的价格却是非常真实的。
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Hi folks, to further inflate GPU prices through stupidity and greed, it seems that right now certain entities are trying to resurrect the GPU mining craze. They are trying to reinvent PoW as something useful through AI compute, but it seems that what they ended up with is just snake oil and vaporware.<p>There is circumstantial evidence that, among others, NVIDIA and Together AI are behind it in one way or another.<p>Together AI hosts LLM inference on their own GPUs. Together AI subsidizes this inference from the profits of $PRL (Pearl), but miners with their GPUs in the Pearl network are not running actual inference. They are running useless PoW in an AI trench coat. "Useful" is snake oil, but more wasted compute, more greed, and higher prices are very real.