Decentralized AI Inference Network AION Launches: Costs Drop to One-Tenth of Traditional Services
Open-source project AION has launched its mainnet, aggregating global idle GPU resources through blockchain incentives to offer decentralized AI inference at roughly one-tenth the cost of AWS and Azure equivalents.
Decentralized AI Inference Network AION Launches
On February 12, 2028, AION, an open-source project led by former Ethereum core developer Alex Torres, announced its mainnet launch. The network aggregates global idle GPU computing power through blockchain incentives to provide decentralized AI inference services.
AION currently has over 140,000 registered GPU nodes, with total computing power equivalent to approximately 80,000 NVIDIA H100 units. "We're not trying to replace cloud providers," Torres said. "We want to prove that AI inference can become a public utility."
AION's inference pricing is approximately $0.02 per million tokens, compared to roughly $0.20 for AWS Bedrock's equivalent service. However, AION's latency is about 40% higher than centralized services, with no SLA guarantees.
Hugging Face has announced integration of AION as a backend option for its inference API.
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