nikhil jain

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building the markets behind ai infrastructure.

i started gpu mart, a marketplace for buying and selling ai infrastructure, after building valdi.

finding compute is only the first step. deploying it still means stitching together hardware, data centers, power, cooling, networking and capital.

also

exploring how compute capacity gets priced, financed, contracted and eventually traded.

qroute: experimenting with pay-as-you-go access to quantum simulation and hardware.

investor in freeflow and hydra host.

earlier

valdi: one of the earliest neoclouds, making gpu compute accessible by the second

at valdi, we built one of the earliest neoclouds, making high-performance gpu compute accessible on demand. developers and researchers could rent gpus by the second, pay as they went, and scale without buying hardware or signing long-term contracts.

oben: pioneering personal ai avatars and the foundations of digital identity

at oben, we pioneered personal ai avatars that could look, sound and learn to behave like you. our inventions brought together foundational elements of ai identity in the metaverse: personalized appearance, synthetic voice and intelligent interaction.

i keep ending up in markets that are early, fragmented and hard to navigate.

older ideas i still like

outside work

upcoming hike: mt whitney

recent hikes: agnew meadows to thousand island lake, bell rock, north rim to south rim, and cactus to clouds.

late night reading: foundation series, the snowball, sophie's world, the socrates express, first principles, surprise, kill, vanish, meditations, the bitcoin standard, and principles.