Real machines, not a data center
Chips@Home draws on GPUs and CPUs that already exist in people's homes and workshops, hardware that's mostly sitting idle anyway.
Public beta · Forge available now for Windows
Compute doesn't have to live in someone else's data center.
Chips@Home is a network built from real machines in real homes and workshops: your own spare GPU and CPU cycles, working together instead of renting time from someone else's server farm. Forge is the worker app that plugs into it, so you can install it today, put it to work right away, and already be part of the network once it opens.
- Data stays on your machine
- Nothing shares unless you turn it on
- No account required to download
Forge · Home dashboard
Public beta · Windows
Opt-in by design
Nothing shares, borrows, or runs on the network until you turn it on. Leaving is as easy as joining was.
Local-first, low latency
Work happens close to the source by default, and the network only adds to that. It never replaces running things on your own machine.
Start today
Forge is the worker, and it's ready now.
Forge is the desktop app that plugs into Chips@Home: chat, knowledge libraries, agent jobs, and image generation, all running on your own hardware. It's what you can install today, well ahead of the network itself opening up.
Explore ForgeWhy people are trying it
- Local AI, with optional cloud providers when you want them
- Agent jobs run through an approval gate, so nothing expensive runs without your OK
- Pairs to Forge Cloud in under two minutes, entirely optional
Live
Forge Cloud pairs your desktop to an account in under two minutes.
Sign in on chipsathome.com, confirm the device name Forge shows you, and you're connected, no tokens to copy by hand. It's optional, and Forge runs fully offline without it.
Accounts & devices
Your account and device dashboard.
Forge Cloud tracks your paired devices and their status. Inference still happens on your own hardware, not ours.
Learn about Forge CloudStatus
What's live, and what's coming next.
It's easy for a website to drift from reality. Here's where things stand today.
Check full statusLive now
- Forge worker app (Windows public beta)
- Forge Cloud pairing & device dashboard
- Docs & support
Coming next
- Chips@Home network enrollment
- Worker contribution across the network
- macOS / Linux support