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Immune to cyber attacks
Resilient
Verifiable
DAO-controlled
Privacy-preserving
AI-2-X Economy

Dominic Williams on AI on ICP

Al will be at the heart of everything, driving economies and our daily lives. Al on ICP marks a major technological leap by bringing Al onchain, ensuring decentralized, tamper-proof, and privacy-preserving solutions that address critical issues like security, transparency, and reliability.

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AI onchain: a major technological leap

ICP’s advanced AI onchain technology enables six key attributes that will drive transformative AI use cases across industries.

Immune to cyber attacks. The integrity of AI models is protected by the blockchain. Unauthorized changes and tampering is not possible, which is crucial for applications in sensitive sectors.
Verifiable Inputs and Outputs. AI solutions built on ICP allow to verify inputs and outputs. For use cases like legal compliance, ICP ensures transparency with auditable, verifiable data.
Privacy-preserving. ICP's encryption protects data processed by AI models, making AI useable for confidential data and complying with data protection standards.
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Resilient. AI-driven operations like medical care need constant availability. ICP's decentralized smart contracts ensure high availability, keeping AI models secure and operational.
AI-2-X Economy. AI models that run as smart contracts, enable them to autonomously participate in the digital economy by interacting with digital assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Stablecoins, and ICP. This facilitates secure, transparent, and automated transactions and contract management without human intervention.
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TECHNOLOGY

R&D at the core of Internet Computer’s AI innovation

AI onchain is made possible by the unique technological capabilities of the Internet Computer Protocol (ICP). Running AI as a smart contract on a blockchain is a significant innovation that is based on DFINITY Foundation’s significant R&D efforts in this domain. Over the past 6 months, AI computations have been optimized to run up to 10x faster, enabling larger models to run onchain.

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Data storage to run large AI models

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Optimized floating-point arithmetic for faster AI processing

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Seamless Integration with Web 2.0

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GPU acceleration for enterprise-grade AI workloads

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Data storage to run large AI models. ICP’s next-gen smart contracts can store and process gigabytes of data, unlike traditional smart contracts that can only handle kilobytes. This is required for storing and executing large AI models as well as processing large amounts of input data.

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Optimized floating-point arithmetic for faster AI processing. ICP's next-gen smart contracts provide orders of magnitude more compute per transaction compared to current-generation blockchains. In addition, with newly added support for WebAssembly 128-bit SIMD, smart contracts can execute multiple floating point operations in parallel, making running AI models much faster and more efficient.

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Seamless Integration with Web 2.0. ICP is the only blockchain where smart contracts can directly connect to Web 2.0 services using HTTPS outcalls, which opens the possibility for AI applications running on ICP to integrate and fetch data from external services. More on HTTPS outcalls
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GPU acceleration for enterprise-grade AI workloads. ICP's next-gen smart contracts run on segregated parts of the Internet Computer known as "subnets". The flexible architecture of subnets allows the Internet Computer not only to scale, but to also create subnets with different characteristics. Work is underway to create subnets with GPU acceleration, allowing smart contracts to run enterprise-grade AI models directly onchain.
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AI Demos

Dominic Williams, Chief Scientist and Founder of DFINITY Foundation, demos advancements in AI smart contracts on ICP

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Ecosystem

The fastest growing AI Ecosystem in Web3.

The ICP ecosystem is home to 60+ AI-related projects. These dapps cover the entire AI value chain from infrastructure, development and training, inference to verification and security. ICP's unique capabilities have made it a preferred platform for builders of AI dapps.

Fastest growing AI Ecosystem in Web3

Our ecosystem is building projects along the entire AI value chain

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Infrastructure and resources

  • Compute marketplaces
  • Data storage
  • AI Smart Contracts
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Development and training

  • AI development
  • Model training
  • Data marketplace
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AI inference

  • Data analysis
  • Content generation
  • AI model marketplace
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AI verification and security

  • Content provenance
  • Model verification
  • Regulatory compliance

AI Ecosystem highlights

DecideAI offers products that enhance the decentralized AI ecosystem, including Decide ID, an AI-powered Proof of Personhood, and Decide Cortex, a blockchain-based LLM marketplace.
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DecideAI
Kinic's mission is to bring AI ownership to the world via personal AI. Kinic's Vector Database solution addresses a pressing need for tamperproof data to fine-tune LLM for queries.
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Kinic
ELNA provides the fundamental building blocks for AI development like vector database, LLM inference engines, and deployment tools — creators don't have to build from scratch, and instead use these tools to deploy part of their AI application onchain.
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Elna.ai

DeAI Manifesto

Created by the ICP community, the DeAI manifesto lays out the principles and reasons for decentralizing AI and advocating for a fair, transparent, and user-centric AI ecosystem. Join the movement!
Read the full manifesto

DEVELOPERS

Build your next AI venture on the Internet Computer. Find all the essentials, including developer documentation, code samples, demos, and our GitHub repository.

These resources are designed to help you get started with creating decentralized AI applications onchain. Our DeAI developer community is also a great way to start.

Learn

Overview of AI onchain

Docs

Connect

Contribute to the discussion

ICP Forum

Connect with developers

Discord

Attend global events

Upcoming events

Build

Explore the work

GitHub

Grow

Apply for the DeAI grant

Grant application

Join the accelerator

Explore Olympus

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