Microsoft patent filing describes paying users for idle computing power to train AI

A newly published application outlines how gaming PCs, laptops and phones could run small AI training jobs while their owners aren't using them Your gaming PC spends most of its life doing nothing. Microsoft has a patent application that imagines putting that downtime to work training artificial intelligence. The filing describes a system that could tap the spare graphics processing power on everyday devices and, possibly, compensate the people who own them. It is a patent application, not a product announcement. The application, numbered US 2026/0349820 A1, was filed by Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC on April 30, 2025. It was published on November 5, 2026.

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