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Targon
Last discussed Jun 27, 2026
A BitTensor subnet providing private, industrial-grade AI inference services.
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Jason Calacanis
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Used for: Renting H200 GPUs by the hour at $3-4/hr on a permissionless basis
Praised: Permissionless, low-cost GPU rental
vs: Mentioned alongside Bittensor as part of the distributed compute ecosystem
"There's Targon, which is just straight up people putting in compute, and you can rent H200s by the hour for three bucks, four bucks, and it's permissionless."
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Alex Wilhelm
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Used for: Secure distributed GPU compute for AI workloads
Praised: Complete memory encryption, confidential computing, permissionless access
vs: Solves privacy issues that other permissionless networks have
"We ended up developing this thing called the Targon virtual machine which is a confidential virtual machine where it leverages TDX, AMD SEV and Nvidia confidential compute to completely encrypt the memory."
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Mark Jeffrey
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Used for: Private AI inference for businesses
Praised: Provably encrypted end-to-end, trusted execution environment, private prompts
vs: Unlike big companies that use prompts to retrain models
"Targon supplies industrial-grade inference. So it's private. Your prompts are not consumed and used to retrain some big company's model. This is provably encrypted end-to-end. They have a trusted execution environment."
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