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  "markdown": "Co-founder.\n\nChristian Horne co-founded Vast.ai with Jake Cannell, incorporating the company in June 2016, and the two built the GPU marketplace end to end before its launch in September 2018. Like Cannell, he wrote on LessWrong about compute and the scaling of AI.\n\n## What Christian builds\n\n- [Vast.ai](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vast-ai.md), graded B, 62.7/100, in GPU \u0026 serverless compute. Vast.ai is a marketplace for renting GPUs by the second from independent hosts and data centres, as Docker instances, virtual machines or autoscaling serverless endpoints. Agents use the `vastai` CLI, a Python SDK or a REST API. Co-founder, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Jake Cannell](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jake-cannell/), CEO and co-founder\n- [Travis Cannell](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/travis-cannell/), COO\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Christian Horne?\n\nChristian Horne co-founded Vast.ai with Jake Cannell, incorporating the company in June 2016, and the two built the GPU marketplace end to end before its launch in September 2018. Like Cannell, he wrote on LessWrong about compute and the scaling of AI.\n\n### What does Vast.ai Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Vast.ai from Vast.ai Inc.. Vast.ai is a marketplace for renting GPUs by the second from independent hosts and data centres, as Docker instances, virtual machines or autoscaling serverless endpoints. Agents use the vastai CLI, a Python SDK or a REST API.\n\n### How are Christian's tools graded?\n\nVast.ai is graded B, 62.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://vast.ai/about\n- https://vast.ai/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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