# Jake Cannell

> Jake Cannell is founder of Vast.ai Inc.. Vast.ai on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-27

Founder, Vast.ai Inc..

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.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-cannell-a4a2453/

## What Jake builds

- [Vast.ai](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vast-ai.md), graded B, 62.7/100, in 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 `vastai` CLI, a Python SDK or a REST API. Founder, Vast.ai Inc., researched 2026-10-26.

## 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.

## Sources

- https://vast.ai/about
- https://vast.ai/

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