← Back to research
Intelligence Infra2025.0620 min
The Holy Grail of Crypto AI: Frontier Exploration on Decentralized Training
Crypto AI 的圣杯：去中心化训练的前沿探索
Summary
Training is the "heavy industry" of AI. This report maps centralized, distributed, federated and fully decentralized training, and profiles Prime Intellect, Pluralis, Gensyn and Nous Research.
Why it matters
Whoever coordinates decentralized training at scale controls the upper bound of open, community-owned AI.
Key ideas
01
Training methods split into four decentralization tiers.
02
Communication overhead is the core bottleneck for decentralized training.
03
A verifiability + incentive + openness lens compares the leading projects.
Versions
Chinese and English versions of this report.
Social threads
Published or syndicated by
Related research
2026.09 · Intelligence Infra