Salad Cloud

Short Intro: Salad Cloud is a GPU compute platform founded around 2018 by Bob Miles, a former Qantas aeronautical engineer who co-produced a twelve-part Netflix and National Geographic series, then bought salad.com from Hidden Valley Ranch and built a distributed compute network on top of consumer gaming PCs. Headquartered in Salt Lake City with $27.5M raised, the platform operates two tiers: a community pool of 450,000+ enrolled gaming PC nodes for high-volume stateless workloads priced as low as $0.02 per hour, and a secure data center tier with A100, L40S, and H100 NVL instances for compliance-sensitive deployments. CivitAI, the largest AI art model sharing platform, uses Salad for Stable Diffusion inference at scale.

Key Capabilities:

• Community GPU pool of consumer gaming hardware across 11,000+ daily active GPUs

• Secure data center tier with A100, L40S, and H100 NVL for enterprise and compliant workloads

• Up to 90% cost savings compared to hyperscaler GPU pricing

• Container deployment without node management, scaling across thousands of GPUs via the Salad portal

• Distributed network spanning 450,000+ nodes across 180+ countries

• Autoscaling replicas for high-volume stateless AI inference workloads

• Flexible pricing with public rate calculator and sustained use discounts

• Workload support for image generation, speech-to-text, computer vision, 3D rendering, and drug discovery simulation

• WebSocket and streaming endpoint support

• DevOps pipeline encryption and integrity tooling

• Golem Network DePIN integration for decentralized compute experiments

• Fortune 500 clients alongside AI startups on the same platform

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