Introduction

Hypertensor is a distributed intelligence platform for decentralized AI applications—open and verifiably decentralized AI protocols run by the world.

On a more technical level, Hypertensor is a network of pools of sub-networks (known as subnets). A subnet is a distributed network of computers (known as nodes) running software related to AI that can verify AI-related work. Nodes in these subnets either compete or collaborate on AI tasks and evaluate each other's quality of performance in real time.

On a higher level understanding, Hypertensor is a decentralized AI economy. Currently, companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, ElevinLabs, and xAI are among the top companies in the centralized AI economy. What if OpenAI allowed anyone to host LLMs and run inference tasks in return for income, or Anthropic allowed anyone to validate inference tasks in return for income?

This is what Hypertensor is: an economy where any team can build a fully decentralized AI startup—in a fully decentralized AI economy.