MetaY

MetaY is a browser-side way to put an idle consumer GPU to work. Instead of leaving the graphics card untouched between games or work sessions, the extension accepts small AI deep-learning inference jobs from the network and processes them in the background, crediting your account with MetaY Points for the compute you hand over.

The extension is deliberately unobtrusive: it waits for headroom rather than competing with the applications you are actively using, and it exposes a dashboard so you can watch contribution levels and point balances. The vendor, Blockfish, positions the tool around the idea that AI research demand for GPUs keeps growing while home hardware sits idle most of the day.

Availability is through the Chrome Web Store, with the listing showing a small early user base and version 0.0.7 published in December 2024. It is a free download; the reward side is denominated in MetaY Points rather than a fixed cash rate, and the project also maintains a web presence at metay.ai.