– Global Web3 investment firms including ByteTrade, Mirana, and FactBlock participate in large numbers
– Investing in key areas such as mobile AI, open source toolkits, and web3 integration
– ‘Gaia AI Phone’ to be released within the year… Providing complete data sovereignty
GAIA Labs, a decentralized artificial intelligence (AI) project, announced on the 24th that it has attracted $20 million (about 27.6 billion won) in seed and series A investment. GAIA plans to use the investment to expand the infrastructure for decentralized AI services and expand its business area to mobile.
This investment round was led by Web3 infrastructure builder and venture studio ByteTrade Lab and global venture fund Mirana Ventures, with participation from EVM Capital, Taisu Ventures, Presto, MoonPay, BitGo, FACTBLOCK, and Consensys Mesh.
Gaia plans to use this funding for businesses such as △mobile AI △infrastructure expansion △open AI toolkit △web3 integration. Gaia provides decentralized AI that operates on a network of nodes operated by individuals or organizations scattered around the world without a central server. Currently, more than 1 million wallets and 700,000 nodes are participating, and more than 17 trillion AI inference tasks have been performed so far.
Based on this investment, Gaia Labs plans to launch the ‘Gaia AI Phone’ by the end of this year, which is equipped with a decentralized AI app. It runs AI models on the device without relying on a centralized cloud infrastructure. This ensures autonomous ownership of user data and provides an AI assistant that works without the Internet.
“We are excited to support Gaia as they redefine what user-owned intelligence can look like,” said Takashi Hayashida, Managing Partner at Taisu Ventures, who participated in the investment. Gaia is building the infrastructure for decentralized, censorship-resistant AI, with a vision of moving beyond simply open, verifiable AI to one that is owned and controlled by users.
You must be logged in to post a comment.