Nvidia launches free tool that links idle computers into a personal AI data center
Nvidia is announcing its new Personal AI Router (PAIR), a free tool that syncs up your home computers for tackling local AI inference tasks with tools like Ollama and LM Studio. Let's get the obvious thing out of the way, despite what its name might imply: PAIR is not a hardware router. It's open-so...
Nvidia is announcing its new Personal AI Router (PAIR), a free tool that syncs up your home computers for tackling local AI inference tasks with tools like Ollama and LM Studio.
Let's get the obvious thing out of the way, despite what its name might imply: PAIR is not a hardware router. It's open-source software developed by Nvidia that discovers compatible PCs on a network, connects them, and prepares them for crunching numbers on agentic workflows. While the compatible devices are mostly Nvidia GeForce GPUs (PAIR works with RTX 20-series cards and newer, as well as RTX Pro GPUs and DGX Spark systems), Apple's M4 chips or newer will also …