July 16, 2024

Kaisar Network joins the peaqosystem

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In a nutshell: Kaisar Network — a DePIN providing peer-to-peer GPU resources to AI projects — has joined the peaqosystem. By addressing the critical shortage of GPUs, which are crucial hardware for AI, Kaisar is positioning itself, and by extension peaq, at the heart of the expanding AI industry. This gives you the opportunity to become the driving force behind the AI revolution while collecting rewards for lending your GPU power to AI projects in need.

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Fueling the future of AI

The AI sector is growing exponentially, with more and more startups diving into this promising industry every day. This rampant growth and the rapid technological advancements in AI are turning computational resources into a wanted commodity. Since at least the beginning of 2024, the demand for graphics processing units (GPUs) has skyrocketed. And while big industry players find it easy enough to get their hands on the hardware they need, many AI-focused startups have been struggling to do the same.

This disparity isn’t just harming the affected startups. It could potentially stunt the evolution and growth of the entire AI sector and, ultimately, affect us all negatively. Who knows, maybe the AI startup that could have cured cancer went out of business yesterday cause they couldn’t get their hands on enough GPUs?

Kaisar Network has joined the peaqosystem to prevent that from happening. How? By building a DePIN that will serve as the decentralized backbone of advanced AI. Kaisar Network’s DePIN enables anyone to provide their idle GPU capacities to AI projects. This means compute power could be sourced from various contributors, including:

Enterprises with surplus GPUs
Data centers operating below maximum workload
Bitcoin and Ether miners looking to put their rigs to work elsewhere
Individuals with consumer-grade gaming GPUs
And more

By leveraging their spare capacities, counting more than 100,000 consumer- and enterprise-grade GPUs, Kaisar Network offers a Web3-based alternative to centralized cloud GPU platforms. Better yet, Kaisar’s distributed network of GPUs is almost certain to be cheaper, more flexible, and more transparent by virtue of being managed via blockchain. Kaisar is also involved with NVIDIA’s Inception Program — a startup accelerator for AI projects — and is building a DePIN Compute Alliance, which will bring together top DePINs in the segment to provide the AI industry with the backbone scalable enough to power its exponential growth.

Leveraging peaq as its layer-1 blockchain, Kaisar Network will assign self-sovereign peaq IDs to each device on its network. It will deploy smart contracts for managing the decentralized GPU rental platform and its supporting business logic, enabling people and businesses to book and provide GPU capacities. Kaisar will also build a smart contract-based reputation management mechanism, as well as a variety of other functions on peaq, including NFT minting for nodes, reward, staking, and penalty mechanisms, and node services. After testing everything on peaq’s testnet, it will deploy the smart contracts on peaq mainnet and mint its $KAI token natively on peaq as well.

“The GPU shortage is taking a massive toll on the AI industry, affecting the smaller players the worst. Kaisar Network’s DePIN offers them a more affordable and customizable alternative while offering GPU owners a way to monetize their idle capacities. With its unmatched scalability and a range of pre-made Modular DePIN Functions, peaq is the perfect home for Kaisar’s decentralized AI platform.”

— Léonie Nguyen, Co-founder & CBO at Kaisar Network

“The AI boom and Web3 are a perfect match across the entire stack, from data collection to computation. Kaisar Network takes on a crucial part of the AI technology — the hardware for training and running advanced models. It’s exciting to see this DePIN join the peaq ecosystem, bringing another prominent use case to the home of DePIN.”

— Leonard Dorlöchter, Co-founder of peaq

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