OORT Launches HumanAIx, a Global Alliance Advancing Decentralized AI Infrastructure
New York, USA, February 28th, 2025, Chainwire
OORT, the trailblazer in the decentralized AI era, is proud to initiate and launch HumanAIx, a global alliance for decentralized protocols to join hands and build a better AI infrastructure. seeks to advance the AI landscape through shared knowledge, interoperable frameworks, and secure AI solutions.
Founding members of HumanAIx include: OORT, Neo, Storj, Oasis Protocol, YGG, io.net, XYO, AI.KIDO, DeTaSECURE, Unyt, Holo, Valdi, Supermoon.
As AI advances rapidly, the three core pillars of AI development—compute, storage, and data—continue to face significant challenges including high costs, energy consumption, scalability limitations, and centralization, which restrict accessibility and efficiency. On the storage side, handling large data volumes and associated transfer costs continues to be a challenge. Meanwhile, data acquisition often raises ethical and legal concerns, with frequent violations of privacy rights. Data labeling further exacerbates the issue, relying on underpaid workers in poor working conditions, creating serious human rights concerns. Additionally, individuals who contribute data rarely receive fair compensation or incentives. Overcoming these challenges is important for the industry’s long-term sustainability and ethical development.
HumanAIx is an open protocol that seamlessly connects partners—each contributing critical components such as validation, storage, compute, and data—to create a decentralized AI infrastructure that is permissionless, scalable, and verifiable. It is built on a three-layer architecture, consisting of an interface layer, a protocol layer (which integrates compute, storage, and data), and a security layer. This initiative harnesses industry expertise and knowledge to collaboratively build an open environment for the future of decentralized AI.
“We believe AI should create more benefits than constraints for humanity. With the launch of HumanAIx, we are fostering a decentralized movement to ensure AI remains human-centric and serves the broader community,” said Michael Robinson, Chairman of OORT Foundation. “We are thrilled to collaborate with like-minded visionaries and excited to develop initiatives that better serve the AI community, ultimately building a truly human-centric ecosystem.”
“At Neo, we believe that a decentralized, interoperable future is key to unlocking AI’s full potential. By joining HumanAIx, we are contributing to an open, verifiable AI infrastructure that empowers developers and businesses alike—one that is transparent, scalable, and accessible to all,” said John Wang, Head of Neo Ecosystem Growth.
“This HumanAIx marks a significant milestone in democratising access to high-quality AI models and incentivising human contribution in AI. By combining OORT’s robust infrastructure with our security expertise at DeTaSECURE and EigenLayer’s innovative restaking mechanism, we’re creating an ecosystem that ensures transparency, reliability and economic sustainability in AI industry.”said Tamaghna Basu, Founder, CEO & CTO of DeTaSECURE.
“The future of AI depends on diverse, high-quality human input, and YGG is joining HumanAIx to ensure that AI is built with—and for—real people. By empowering a global community to refine and enhance AI data in a decentralized way, we’re creating new opportunities for digital work while keeping AI open, fair, and aligned with human interests.” said Beryl Li, Co-Founder of YGG.
“At XYO, we are driven by the vision of blending blockchain, data and AI to unlock human potential in meaningful ways. HumanAIx offers a unique opportunity to foster collaboration and build systems that prioritize fairness, authenticity, and real-world impact while ensuring data integrity. We’re proud to join forces with forward-thinking partners to shape a future where technology amplifies human agency and innovation thrives.” said Markus Levin, XYO Co-Founder.
“While everyone is just talking about ‘Bring AI to people’, ‘Make Web3 AI truly decentralized’, HumanAIx has a real impact by uniting the brightest minds of the web3 AI sector. By stepping into this alliance with AI.KIDO we’re significantly boosting our efforts to put the responsibility for AI markets into the hands of real people.” said Pavlo Karapinka, Co-Founder of AI.KIDO.
“We are impressed with the collaborative and human-centric approach to AI taken by HumanAIx. It’s imperative that AI develops as a tool for all and by all, and this initiative is a unique opportunity to make this goal a reality. We are excited to work closely with our partners to build and realise the vision of this open ecosystem.” said Alastair Ong, Director at Holo.
The alliance brings together some of the most innovative Web3 and AI-driven projects, below is the full list of its founding members and their roles in this initiative:
DeTaSECURE (Validation Layer)
- Focus: Cybersecurity and decentralized task validation leveraging Eigenlayer.
- Integration: Implements cryptographic verification workflows to validate AI-generated datasets.
Unyt (Mutual Credit Accounting for Microtransactions)
- Focus: Trustless mutual accounting system for AI contributions and microtransactions.
- Integration: Enables seamless on-chain micro-payments for data labeling and model contributions.
Holo (Decentralized Hosting)
- Focus: P2P data and compute hosting for AI models.
- Integration: Provides serverless and distributed hosting for AI-based applications.
Neo (Smart Contract & Digital Identity Layer)
- Focus: Scalable smart contracts and decentralized digital identity solutions for AI applications.
- Integration: Provides a secure, high-performance smart contract framework to support AI-driven transactions and identity verification within HumanAIx.
XYO (Decentralized Data Network)
- Focus: Decentralized data network powered by XYO devices and XYO Layer One, a blockchain optimized for AI-scale structured data.
- Integration: Leverage XYO’s global network for verified geospatial data in HumanAIx AI training and validation.
AI.KIDO (Data Protocol Development & Adoption)
- Focus: develop and adopt a decentralized data collection protocol with a user-friendly front-end for seamless data contribution
- Integration: Connect to the protocol, contribute to its development.
YGG (Community Data Contributors)
- Focus: Incentivized, decentralized AI training data.
- Integration: Grants special whitelist access and engagement for contributions.
Storj (Storage)
- Focus: Secure, permissionless ostorage built on top of OORT’s node architecture.
- Integration: Runs Storj clients on OORT nodes, optimizing for AI dataset storage.
OORT (Storage & Datahub)
- Focus: Both data storage, collection, and labelling
- Integration: Provide edge nodes for decentralised storage and collected for data training.
Oasis Protocol (Confidential AI Compute)
- Focus: Privacy-enhanced GPU compute for AI workloads.
- Integration: Provides secure, confidential compute via Oasis APIs within the Aggregated GPU Layer.
io.net (GPU Network)
- Focus: Distributed AI model training across decentralized GPUs.
- Integration: Provides GPU resources directly to the Aggregated GPU Layer
Valdi (GPU Resource Allocation)
- Focus: Optimized GPU resource allocation for AI training.
- Integration: Uses standardized APIs to allocate and optimize GPU usage within the Aggregated GPU Layer.
For more information about HumanAIx and how to get involved, users can visit: https://www.oortfoundation.org/humanaix
About OORT
OORT is the trailblazer in the decentralized AI era, offering a trustless infrastructure built for the future of AI. Powered by the Olympus protocol, OORT provides enterprises and individuals with a suite of decentralized AI products, focused on three core areas in AI development: OORT DataHub (for data collection and labeling), OORT Storage (for data storage), and OORT Compute (for model training). OORT has received funds and grants from prominent investors, including Taisu Venture, Red Beard Venture, Microsoft, and Google, and has secured world-reputable partnerships and clients, including Dell, Tencent Cloud, Seagate, Lenovo Image, and Binance Smart Chain.
Official website: https://www.oortech.com/
Foundation website: https://www.oortfoundation.org/
