Pi Network Ventures Announces First Investment in OpenMind
Palo Alto, United States, November 3rd, 2025, Chainwire
Pi Network Ventures announced its first investment, backing OpenMind, a company developing an operating system and open-source protocol for robots to think, learn, and work together—like Android for robots. Beyond this investment, Pi Network and OpenMind have collaborated and completed a proof-of-concept project where volunteer Pi Node operators ran AI models for OpenMind, thus proving it’s possible for Pi Node operators to run computations for third-party organizations.
Strategic Alignment with Pi Network Ventures’ Objectives
Pi Network Ventures’ participation in OpenMind’s funding round aligns with its broader commitment to support innovative businesses across technology sectors that advance Pi’s long-term vision. The initiative complements its three core investment objectives:
- Increasing the utility of Pi
- Enabling more of the world’s production onto Pi Network
- Bringing Pi into real-world use cases
Pi Network views the intersection of blockchain and AI as critical to address an AI-dominant future with lingering questions on distribution, production, and the role of human labor and intelligence. In environments where AI agents and robots increasingly act on behalf of humans, the ability for those systems to interact securely to achieve productivity for humans will become essential.
OpenMind’s technologies create a shared intelligence layer that enables robots to collaborate and learn collectively in a decentralized ecosystem. This complements Pi’s vision for the future of blockchain and AI, where decentralized infrastructure supports open innovation and equitable participation.
OpenMind’s hardware-agnostic OM1 operating system and FABRIC protocol allow robots to recognize and verify one another, share context, and coordinate in both physical and digital spaces. The company aims to provide open, interoperable frameworks that bring intelligent systems into practical use cases spanning logistics, manufacturing, autonomous delivery, elder care, and more. Such systems may create the opportunity for blockchain-enabled layers of identity, access, authentication, payments or incentive mechanisms—categories where Pi has existing infrastructure and ecosystem activity.
Building Utility Through Decentralized Computing
The collaborative project allowing Pi Node operators to run computations for OpenMind explores the capability of Pi’s global network of nodes to support decentralized AI training and computing tasks—another Pi Node utility in addition to securing the Pi ledger. This is also a platform-level utility, relying on the collective resources of the network, i.e. the computation power of its over 350,000 active nodes.
By transforming unused computing power into productive work, this effort (1) enables AI products to source and fulfill their computation demands from Pi Nodes by paying Node runners in Pi, and (2) allows Pi Node runners to opt-in to earn Pi from an additional Node utility, apart from Node mining rewards. This Pi Node utility can help further integrate Pi into the AI economy through these computation and AI model training contributions to the AI infrastructure layer.
Over time, such integration could expand to Pi’s decentralized labor network (currently operating in various parts of the Pi ecosystem such as KYC, Fireside Forum, Pi Chats and Brainstorm app), enabling developers to gather both human feedback and computing power within a single ecosystem. The combination could represent further progress in connecting Pi’s ecosystem with real-world applications in AI development and training.
Preparing for Real-World Integration
Pi Network Ventures’ investment in OpenMind supports the broader goal of preparing the technical and ecosystem environment for real-world Pi utility, particularly as AI-powered production and decentralized computing become more central to global productivity.
The proof-of-concept project with OpenMind demonstrates how Pi’s distributed Node resources could evolve beyond ledger maintenance toward active participation in AI-driven economies.
For more information:
The full blog post detailing this investment and the collaboration here.
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Pi Network Ventures invests in startups and businesses across stages and industries, with one core focus: advancing the real-world utility and production on Pi Network