Sovereign AI Access Company Forms DeAI Steering Committee with 0G Labs and Manifest Network to Standardize Decentralized AI Industry
The Sovereign AI Access Company has established a Decentralized AI Steering Committee with industry leaders 0G Labs and Manifest Network to create interoperability standards and drive vertical alignment in the blockchain-based AI sector, aiming to compete with big tech's centralized AI offerings.
The Sovereign AI Access Company has appointed 0G Labs and Manifest Network as founding members of its Decentralized AI Steering Committee and Treasury, marking a significant step toward standardizing the rapidly evolving blockchain-based AI industry. The committee, composed of industry leaders working at the intersection of AI and blockchain, represents unique components of the DeAI technology stack, with Manifest Network representing the DeAI Compute sector and 0G Labs, the parent company of the 0G blockchain, representing DeAI Training.
The DeAI Steering Committee seeks interoperability and commercialization of decentralized AI platforms, applications, and agents, working to standardize and vertically align components of this emerging industry. According to Sovereign AI Access Company CEO John Sarson, "The collaboration of 0G, a decentralized Layer1, and Manifest Network, a decentralized Layer0 is a great example of vertical alignment that will benefit both projects." This partnership brings next-generation blockchain solutions to market, with 0G's AI-optimized blockchain operating system enabling unprecedented large-scale AI model training directly on-chain for the first time.
Manifest Network's "Sovereign Soldiers" have deployed a first-of-its-kind distributed, enterprise-grade AI server network that provides permissionless compute with the security and performance of private AI infrastructure while maintaining the ease-of-use and on-demand scalability of traditional cloud services. The Sovereign AI Access Company serves as an implementation and commercialization team for projects in its Treasury, enabling infrastructure deployment at scale, strategic investment, and broad investor participation in the DeAI economy.
Eric Bravick of Manifest Network emphasized that "This is about creating durable infrastructure and interoperability standards that will allow DeAI to grow outside the boundaries of big tech and centralized clouds. We are designing a system that benefits developers, operators, and institutional partners alike." As a Layer1 provider, 0G Labs has pioneered the first high-speed, low-latency blockchain optimized for AI workloads, with a token-driven ecosystem supporting applications, agents, and trusted execution environments.
Together with other steering members, 0G and Manifest will steward capital allocations, set technology standards, and drive ecosystem adoption and expansion. Sarson Funds, Inc. serves as the company's financial partner and Treasury manager, assisting with capital market transactions, compliance, and operational support. The company has organized a 50-person team of veteran Web2 and Web3 operators to assist with adoption and commercialization of DeAI and Web3 protocols.
According to DeAI Steering Committee member W. Reed Baum, "In order to effectively compete with AI offerings from already vertically-aligned big tech competitors, the DeAI industry needs to build systems that are interoperable and easily accessible. In a world where training AI models can cost hundreds of millions of dollars, effective decentralized, permissionless networks are humanity's best chance to preserve the individual's ability to access private AI solutions." This initiative represents a turning point for decentralized AI, combining public company structure with real-world infrastructure deployment to create a framework supporting both innovation and collaboration while stabilizing and standardizing technology stacks across the industry.