Centralized AI is eating the world. But what if users owned the intelligence? – Taisu Ventures

Imagine if the internet had been built by just one company. Every website, every app, every search, owned, filtered, and monetized by a single gatekeeper. That’s the path we’re on with AI. Big Tech trains models on your data, locks them behind paywalls, and decides what you can or can’t access, without your control, visibility, or share in the upside.

That’s why user-owned intelligence matters. It’s not just a technical shift, it’s about reclaiming agency in an increasingly automated world.

At Taisu Ventures, we invest where foundational principles, privacy, transparency, and user sovereignty, intersect with exponential technologies.

That’s why we backed Gaia Labs.

Gaia is building the decentralized AI infrastructure layer:

• 700,000+ active nodes across an open mesh
• 17 trillion inferences served
• 1M+ wallets participating across blockchain ecosystems
  

Now, they’re going further, bringing decentralized AI to your pocket.

With a Gaia AI Phone built on Galaxy S25 hardware, users will run models directly on-device:

• No cloud, no surveillance
• Local inference, full data ownership
• Offline agents, on your terms
  

This $20M raise will accelerate Gaia’s roadmap:

• Decentralized staking and verifiable inference
• Developer tools for open-source LLMs and agents
• Cross-chain compute and data integration
• On-chain governance and tokenized coordination
  

At Taisu, what stood out wasn’t just Gaia’s technical ambition, but their early product-market fit and real-world traction.

In a world trending toward closed, centralized AGI, Gaia is the credible decentralized counterweight.

We’re proud to support them in building the foundation for user-owned intelligence.

Learn more: gaianet.ai
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