Welcome to MIZU - your gateway to AI model hosting! MIZU is a revolutionary platform that lets you create and manage your own AI compute pools. Whether you're an AI enthusiast or developer, MIZU makes it simple to:

• Host powerful language models on your laptop
• Access these models from any device, including your phone
• Share your computing resources with others
• Earn rewards for contributing to the network

This step-by-step guide will show you how to set up and use MIZU to host models on your computer and access them from anywhere.

Step 1: Launch an MIZU Pool

Visit https://pool-staging.mizu.technology and sign in with your email or Google account. Once logged in, you'll see a list of pools. Navigate to your Profile and click "+ New Pool" to create a new pool.

Currently, each MIZU pool can serve one model. We use ollama as our local model provider and support all models from https://ollama.com/library. For example, if you name your pool "my-pool" and choose the model "deepseek-r1:1.5b", you can configure settings like input token price, output token price, context length, max outputs, and fee ratio.

Regarding fee ratio: Pool earnings are split between the owner and workers. As the pool owner, you can set your percentage share, with 20% being the default. Lowering this ratio can help attract more workers to your pool.

Step 2: Add your laptop to your pool

After creating your pool, you can add devices to start serving traffic. Currently, we support Msty (an Ollama-compatible local model hosting engine). First, download Msty from https://msty.app/.

Once Msty is installed, set up your local AI configuration. Deepseek-r1:1.5B should be default model to install and load. If not, head to “Settings” and find the “Local AI” section to manage your models. Browse the available models online and click "Install" on deepseek-r1:1.5b. Within moments, the model will be up and running on your laptop!

After installing the model, you'll need one more setting to make MIZU work. Because the MIZU web app forwards requests to your local Msty instance, you must whitelist MIZU in the server CORS settings. Add https://pool-staging.mizu.technology to the "Allowed Network Origins" field as shown below to whitelist MIZU, or simply put “*” to whitelist everything:

Please ensure you put https://pool-staging.mizu.technology without ending slash otherwise it will not work.