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On June 11, 2023, io.net launched with a straightforward idea. AI workloads need more compute than centralized hyperscalers can ever deliver, and the solution would be a decentralized network of GPUs, not another mega data center, that turns underutilized capacity into on-demand infrastructure. Three years later, we’ve fundamentally changed the AI compute market. io.net is now the largest decentralized GPU network in the world. Thousands of GPUs distributed globally, with $8 million in enterpri
Three years ago, we started io.net with a simple, powerful belief that the infrastructure behind AI shouldn't be in the hands of a few giant corporations. Today, we're taking a huge step toward making that vision a reality. As we celebrate our third anniversary, we're excited to announce the official launch of the Incentive Dynamic Engine (IDE). It's a new way of thinking about our tokenomics that ties the supply of $IO directly to how much people are actually using the network. We'll be perman
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We served the same model on both H100 and H200, under identical live traffic, for ten days. The results were not quite what the spec sheets would suggest, and the biggest factor turned out to be something neither datasheet mentions.
Let’s imagine that you’ve budgeted $10,000 for an AI/LLM training run. You hop on AWS and the app says, “no H100s available for 72 hours”. Apart from some stress and frustration, what does that delay actually cost your team? In answering that question, perhaps like Thanos, when asked by Dr. Strange how much it cost to collect the infinity rings, he replied: “Everything”. All joking aside, most finance models would record “zero”. There’s no invoice because you’ve consumed no GPU-hours. Your $10
When you ask an AI to help with something and it refuses, that refusal didn't happen by accident. Someone, or more precisely, a team of researchers, lawyers, and ethicists at a major AI lab, made a deliberate choice to build that boundary into the model. Today, major model providers (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral, and Cohere) each maintain their own alignment teams, each with distinct values, risk tolerances, and commercial pressures shaping what their models will and won't do. T
With demand outstripping the supply, most people's first thought is to build more data centers. But that framing misdiagnoses the problem. The GPU crisis won’t be solved with more construction.
Cloud storage abstracts away the very urgent compliance question that any AI startup or LLM research project should be asking itself: Where does my data physically sit? The answer to this question has very real and direct consequences, including legal, financial, and operational. Under GDPR, processing EU personal data on US-based infrastructure without adequate safeguards exposes companies to fines up to €20 million or 4% of global annual turnover, whichever is higher. Beyond regulation, there
Open-weight models like Llama 3.1, Mistral, and Falcon are technically free to download. But running them at anything approaching production scale is a different story altogether. The reason for this is that just a handful of hyperscalers and well-funded inference platforms basically control the GPU layer. So, if you need AI infra to serve your 70B parameter model (NVM3 storage, high-bandwidth interconnects, A100s or H100s in quantity), then your AI startup or LLM research project will run hea
Your 2026 guide to building a purpose-built GPU cluster for AI. Includes TCO, vendor-agnostic benchmarks, hardware selection (H100/MI300X), and rollout plan.
Z.ai's GLM-4.7-Flash (30B MoE) is live on io.intelligence. Get the strongest 30B model for coding & reasoning with best-in-class performance-per-dollar.
Complete technical guide to decentralized compute: benchmarks, cost calculator, compliance checklist, and step-by-step migration from AWS/GCP.
Learn what a GPU cluster is, how it differs from multi-GPU servers, and use our cost calculator to decide if you should build or rent one.
Your 2026 guide to building a purpose-built GPU cluster for AI. Includes TCO, vendor-agnostic benchmarks, hardware selection (H100/MI300X), and rollout plan.
Complete technical guide to decentralized compute: benchmarks, cost calculator, compliance checklist, and step-by-step migration from AWS/GCP.
Discover io.net's Incentive Dynamic Engine (IDE): an adaptive tokenomics model bringing sustainable economics and predictable stability to decentralized GPU compute.
New io.net study shows consumer GPUs (RTX 4090) can cut AI inference costs by up to 75% for LLMs, enabling a sustainable, heterogeneous compute infrastructure.
Blockchain promised to solve centralization, but focused on wrong problems. DePIN networks like io.net finally deliver real value through affordable GPU access.
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AI agents paired with decentralized computing create autonomous, scalable systems that reduce costs and increase resilience across industries.
IO Intelligence is an AI-powered optimization system for decentralized computing that monitors, predicts, and optimizes GPU workloads automatically.
BC8 creates AI-generated images from text prompts using io.net's decentralized GPU network for faster, affordable image generation with free credits.
Specialized AI agents leverage DeFi and blockchain technology to create autonomous financial systems, powered by io.net's decentralized GPU infrastructure.
Nesa blockchain hosts 1,000+ AI models with io.net's decentralized GPU network, creating trustless AI infrastructure to compete with Big Tech.
Allora Network partners with io.net to scale DeAI platform using decentralized GPUs, enhancing ML training and predictive modeling capabilities.
Filecoin partners with io.net to expand beyond storage, letting providers monetize unused GPUs for compute while strengthening both networks.
Mira partners with io.net to scale AI verification infrastructure, using decentralized compute to maintain 97-98% accuracy for 400k+ users daily.
New Retrieval Engine from io.net transforms enterprise knowledge management with citation-backed AI responses from trusted document sources.
Learn how IO Worker lets users monetize idle GPUs/CPUs by renting computing power for AI training, earning cryptocurrency rewards based on hardware quality.
Real-world case studies show how AI startups, researchers, and businesses leverage io.net's decentralized GPU network for faster, cost-effective computing.
io.net is leveraging smart contracts on the Solana blockchain to automate GPU rentals, payments, and resource allocation for transparent decentralized computing.