Gradient Network is an AI R&D lab focused on building a fully decentralized artificial intelligence runtime. Founded in 2023, the company is developing what it describes as sovereign, peer-powered infrastructure designed to allow intelligence to be hosted, served, and owned by its users, positioning it as an open alternative to centralized AI platforms.
The company's technical work spans distributed systems, reinforcement learning, distributed training, serving, and agentic systems. Its primary offering is the Open Intelligence Stack (OIS), a framework encompassing distributed training and serving. Key components of OIS include Parallax for distributed serving, Echo for distributed reinforcement learning, and Gradient Cloud for enterprise solutions.
Gradient Network closed a $10 million seed funding round. The team includes researchers and is characterized as mission-driven and community-oriented, with a stated commitment to releasing frontier research.
