Research

Context

The demand for AI computation is growing faster than the availability of high-end GPUs and dedicated infrastructures. Cupseli’s vision is to harness underused distributed power for large-scale AI workloads, without building new data centers, thus lowering costs and carbon footprint.

Ambition

  • Fine-tuning & inference across volatile resources
  • Optimized memory, computation, and communications
  • Security, privacy, and fault tolerance by design
  • Greener, sovereign alternative to centralized data centers

Axis 1 — Frugality

Adapt training and inference to limited, dynamic resources: fault tolerance, activation/weight compression, memory offloading, partitioning, and re-materialization.

Axis 2 — Security & Confidentiality

Protect data and models: encryption, homomorphic operations, confidential computing, and poisoning/backdoor defenses.

Axis 3 — Volatility

Resilient scheduling, failure-aware execution, checkpointing, and straggler mitigation on heterogeneous, intermittent resources.