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io.net enters a strategic partnership with AI agent provider Zerebro.
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Zerebro will leverage io.net’s GPU network to launch validator operations.
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The pivot aims to enhance security across the Ethereum blockchain.
Decentralized GPU network service io.net announces a strategic collaboration with autonomous AI agent provider Zerebro to kickstart its Ethereum validation operations. The announcement marks the latest AI-based startup to join io.net’s network, with recent additions from Mira Network, CreatorBid and Chainbase.
Announced Tuesday, the partnership will see Zerebro leverage io.net’s vast decentralized GPU network infrastructure to enhance its newly launched Ethereum validation operations. According to Zerebro’s team, the partnership marks a “significant milestone” in the integration of autonomous AI and blockchain technology.
Echoing the stance of the Zerebro team, Tausif Ahmed, Chief Business Development Officer at io.net, said:
“This collaboration between io.net and Zerebro marks an exciting step forward for autonomous agents and decentralized AI in general. Zerebro can build with io.net’s permissionless and globally distributed compute network, ensuring it has the ability to continuously sustain operations and to keep innovating.”
In addition, Zerebro users will also have access to the decentralized compute services offered on io.net, ensuring the reliability, efficiency, and scalability of its Ethereum validation activities. By tapping into the “Internet of GPUs”, users will have access to vast compute services on demand for their validation and further enhance the exploration of novel AI applications such as decentralized economic models and governance systems.
The partnership also enables Zerebro to maintain its goal to provide a fully decentralized ecosystem, as Zerebro Co-Founder Agustin Cortes explained. By leveraging the immense power of io.net’s decentralized compute network, the two companies will narrow the gap between AI, crypto and blockchain technology.
“By building on io.net’s decentralized compute network, we are able to innovate while staying true to the crypto principles of decentralization,” Cortes added. “This collaboration will be the stepping stone for agents to have the autonomy to plug into web3 infrastructure. Decentralized compute will be the lifeblood of agents and we are excited to be tinkering at the cutting edge.”
Apart from enhancing the Ethereum validation operations on Zerebro, io.net’s GPU resources aim to advance the development of AI models. Zerebro is a creative autonomous AI agent that dynamically engages with the digital world. It posts on social media platforms, executes blockchain transactions, generates original artwork, composes music, and refines its activities through continuous learning from past experiences.
Additional GPU resources at a cost-friendly price will allow users to build more complex protocols and applications, championing innovation across the platform.
“This collaboration provides a first glimpse of a future in which millions of AI agents leverage decentralized compute networks to power an array of on-chain tasks, extending the capabilities of what agents can do,” Ahmed stated.
In addition, Zerebro will also enhance the diverse set of skills it offers, broadening the offerings to users with features such as digital art creation to community engagement.
The partnership opens up a new feel to how blockchain technology can help advance AI and respective applications of AI, starting with autonomous AI agents. By harnessing io.net’s versatile GPU clusters, Zerebro can sustain its operations, generate revenue, and explore innovations such as developing large language models (LLMs) on decentralized computing networks. The partnership illustrates the value of decentralized networks in creating a sustainable future for autonomous AI agents.
Lastly, the entry of Zerebro into Ethereum validation operations could redefine how AI can be useful in securing the second-largest crypto network. This partnership not only strengthens Zerebro’s capabilities but showcases the broader potential for web3 infrastructure to support AI agents, fostering a future that is autonomous, creative, and decentralized.
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