Rip it up and Start Again: A Life at the Dawn of the Internet

A builder spotlight on Mike Zupper, longtime Livepeer contributor and co-founder of Cloud SPE, who built BlueClaw, an OpenAI-compatible platform running on Livepeer’s distributed GPU network. After a $500/week bill from major AI providers prompted him to seek alternatives, he created an open platform offering language models, audio generation, and image creation at lower cost, and is now architecting Livepeer Modules to make the network’s services composable across programming languages.