Apple researchers turn idle Macs into a virtual GPU cloud with ‘Minions’

Apple researchers describe Minions, an internal system that runs AI inference jobs on idle Apple Silicon Macs when GPUs are scarce.

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2026-10-14 11:15 · Tom's Hardware
Apple researchers turn idle Macs into a virtual GPU cloud with ‘Minions’

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