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Frontier AI — the most advanced general-purpose AI systems currently in development — is becoming one of the world’s most strategically and economically important industries, yet it remains largely inaccessible to most investors and builders. Training a competitive AI model today, similar to the ones retail users frequent, can cost hundreds of millions of dollars, demand tens of thousands of high‑end GPUs, and require a level of operational sophistication that only a handful of companies can support. Thus, for most investors, especially retail ones, there is no direct way to own a piece of the artificial intelligence sector. That constraint is about to change. A new generation of decentralized AI networks is moving from theory to production. These networks connect GPUs of all kinds from around the world, ranging from expensive high‑end hardware to consumer gaming rigs and even your MacBook’s M4 chip, into a single training fabric capable of supporting large, frontier‑scale processes. What matters for markets is that this infrastructure does more than coordinate compute; it also coordinates ownership by issuing tokens to participants who contribute resources, which gives them a direct stake in the AI models they help create. Decentralized training is a genuine advance in the state of the art. Training large models across untrusted, heterogeneous hardware on the open internet was, until recently, said to be an impossibility by AI experts. However, Prime Intellect has now trained decentralized models currently in production — one with 10 billion parameters (the quick, efficient all-rounder that’s fast and capable for everyday tasks) and another with 32 billion parameters (the deep thinker that excels at complex reasoning and delivers more nuanced, sophisticated results). Gensyn, a decentralized machine-learning protocol, has demonstrated reinforcement learning that can be verified onchain. Pluralis has shown that training large models using commodity GPUs (the standard graphics…

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