Odaily Planet Daily reports that the verifiable AI computing layer OpenGradient has announced the completion of a $9.5 million funding round, with participation from a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, SV Angel, Foresight Ventures, Pragma, SALT, Symbolic Capital, Canonical Crypto, Black Dragon, NEAR, Celestia, Thanefield Capital, and angel investor Balaji Srinivasan, former Chief Technology Officer of Coinbase.
This round of funding will be used to build and expand decentralized AI infrastructure, providing model hosting, execution, and cryptographic verification services to enable open, auditable, and verifiable on-chain operation of AI models, laying a trusted foundation for the AI agent economy and decentralized intelligent applications. (Prnewswire)