Petabyte aggregates underutilized GPU capacity from distributed providers and routes it to buyers at prices far below the hyperscalers — with confidential computing, escrow-protected settlement, and automated payout rails built in from day one.
GPU compute is expensive and scarce. Hyperscalers charge premium rates with limited high-end availability — while enormous capacity sits idle across smaller providers, with no efficient way to monetize it.
A decentralized marketplace that unlocks that hidden supply. Buyers get cheaper on-demand GPUs without lock-in, secured by micro-VM isolation and escrow. Providers turn idle hardware into revenue — automated payouts, idle-fallback so nothing sits unused.
Petabyte starts as a GPU marketplace but builds toward the routing layer for compute-as-a-commodity — real-time pricing and cross-provider arbitrage that treat GPU power like electricity. The deeper lever: pairing this with structurally cheap electrons to power AI where the electron is cheapest — the path to a sovereign, trust-minimized compute network.
Control plane & job orchestration
Firecracker / QEMU micro-VM isolation
Atomic, refund-on-reaper protection
Automated provider settlement
Fan-out / stitch pipelines
One-click vLLM, Ollama, ComfyUI
Hard-preempt utilization capture
169-assertion test coverage
Building the Gulf's compute exchange.
For the deck, model, and a live demo — info@petabyte.market