Firm that lets you rent out your idle Mac for AI inference workloads warns of plummeting token costs

Participants leasing excess personal desktop capacity for artificial intelligence inference tasks are facing sharp income contraction as serving prices plummet across the industry. The profitability crunch has been exacerbated by a 77 per cent decline in Anthropic token valuations across a span of under five months. The trend underscores the intensifying margin pressure across decentralised compute and shared infrastructure models.