Alex Cheema

Exo Labs: run Llama 405B across Mac Minis, endorsed by Karpathy, open source distributed AI inference

Co-founder of Exo Labs — the open source framework that lets anyone run large AI models across multiple consumer devices instead of expensive GPU clusters. Oxford physics graduate who previously worked in distributed systems for web3. Mentioned by Karpathy for enabling LLM inference on consumer hardware.

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Exo Labs● activeAI

Open source framework for distributed AI inference across consumer devices. Run Llama 405B on Mac Minis instead of $30K H100 GPUs.

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