Founder of a listed tool
Jake Cannell
Founder, Vast.ai Inc., named behind the Vast.ai listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Jake builds
Vast.ai B · GPU & 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
vastaiCLI, a Python SDK or a REST API.Founder, Vast.ai Inc., researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
Questions
Who is Jake Cannell?
Jake Cannell co-founded Vast.ai with Christian Horne in 2016 and is its CEO. An ML engineer and GPU programmer, he argued in LessWrong essays from 2010 that intelligence is mainly a function of compute, set out in his 2015 essay The Brain as a Universal Learning Machine. Vast.ai runs a marketplace for spare GPU capacity.
What does Vast.ai Inc. make?
Anchor 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.
How are Jake's tools graded?
Vast.ai is graded B, 62.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
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