Decentralizing AI: Towards Open Protocols

This week, we welcome Ben Fielding, Founder and CEO at Gensyn. Gensyn is a proud sponsor of this year's summit.

Ben recounts his journey from deep learning research to addressing the critical issue of compute resource monopolization in AI, leading Gensyn's pioneering decentralized approach. Ben explains how they're solving the fundamental problem of trust in distributed compute networks, a challenge that even past volunteer computing efforts like SETI@home struggled with due to incentives. Their key innovation, Verde, is a robust verification system ensuring the reliability of machine learning computations across untrusted nodes.

Learn about Gensyn's vision for open protocols in machine learning, drawing inspiration from the internet's early days to foster broad participation and emergent AI capabilities. Ben discusses their work on horizontal scaling, including RL Swarm and its new backend, GenRL, aiming to create a "MapReduce moment" for AI that leverages global compute power.

Ben Fielding will be speaking live at the Ownership Economy Summit in New York on October 7th, 2025.

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