📢OG Series 2: Why is 0G Necessary?
▪️ Today, high-performance GPUs and large-scale computational infrastructure are essential to run AI models.
▪️ At this point, researchers and developers usually have two options.
▪️ Build GPU servers themselves, incurring initial investment costs of tens of millions of won and ongoing maintenance and power costs.
▪️ Rent from the cloud, where costs skyrocket as usage increases, making it very inefficient in the long run.
▪️ If a specific company decides to suspend or censor services, the researcher’s model can be immediately blocked.
▪️ Cloud usage fees are on the rise.
AI workloads require levels of parallel computation that traditional blockchain VMs (like EVM) cannot handle.
Limitations of Existing Decentralized GPU Projects
▪️ In fact, many decentralized GPU/AI networks like Render Network, Akash, and Bittensor have already emerged.
▪️ However, these projects mainly focus on "resource rental."
▪️ Render: Primarily focused on 3D rendering tasks, specialized in graphic workloads.
▪️ Akash: A cloud computing marketplace, a rental resource exchange.
▪️ Bittensor: An AI model training network, centered on sharing model training data.
▪️ In other words, it is closer to a marketplace concept where GPUs are rented out and borrowed.
Differentiation of 0G
▪️ 0G @og_labs is not just about simple GPU sharing; it designs a native blockchain layer for executing AI models.
▪️ AI models can be uploaded like smart contracts,
▪️ Anyone can call and execute them through the network,
▪️ And the results can be verified on-chain.
In other words, while Render or Akash are "markets" that "rent out" GPUs, 0G aims to integrate the GPU network into a dedicated chain for executing AI models, opening a new category called DeAI (Decentralized AI Execution Environment).
Summary
If existing projects have remained at the level of a "decentralized GPU marketplace," 0G is the first attempt to make the AI model itself the basic unit of blockchain infrastructure. Just as Ethereum created DeFi, 0G offers the potential to open a completely new ecosystem called DeAI.
📢OG Series 1: 0G, One-Line Definition
"0G @og_labs creates the infrastructure to run AI models on the blockchain."
The biggest innovation of blockchain is that "I can run programs permanently without having to set up my own server."
▪️Ethereum: Anyone can upload smart contracts, and the network executes them instead. This is how DeFi (Decentralized Finance) was born.
▪️Filecoin: Without needing to buy a hard drive and set up a server myself, the distributed network stores data instead. A prime example of decentralized storage.
▪️Render Network: Without having to buy expensive GPUs directly, 3D rendering is processed using GPU resources lent by participants in the network.
In this way, blockchain has started to provide functionalities that previously relied on central servers (like Amazon, Google, MS Cloud, etc.) as "decentralized infrastructure."
However, no one has yet successfully decentralized the execution of AI models.
▪️This is because high-performance GPUs and stable servers are required to run AI models.
0G digs into this point.
"What if AI models could be uploaded to the network like smart contracts, allowing anyone to call and execute them?"
▪️The world that 0G envisions is soon to be "the blockchainization of AI models," which is a decentralized execution environment for AI.
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