In an exclusive interview with 99Bitcoins, Bitgrit’s Co-Founder and COO of Bitgrit, Saksham Kukreja, talked about democratizing AI, bottlenecks in AI, the rise of decentralized computing, and the role and utility of the BGR token.
Bitgrit’s democratic AI platform has been used for multiple large-scale projects ($100k+) by customers like NASA, SoftBank, Accenture, and the Tokyo Government.
When asked if there is a realistic chance of succeeding in democratizing AI, Kukreja said, “Absolutely.”
“The Biggest Bottleneck In AI Is Access To Quality Data”
AI today is controlled by corporations that own the data, the compute, and the profits. Developers, researchers, and data providers—the people who actually build AI—rarely see fair compensation or ownership.
To truly democratize AI, we need to fix the three fundamental pillars that make AI work. The biggest bottleneck in AI is access to quality data. Companies hoard data because of privacy risks, compliance issues, and competitive advantage.
We allows AI models to be trained on private datasets without exposing the underlying data. With data becoming interoperable, traceable, and tokenized, Bitgrit removes one of AI’s biggest barriers: who controls the data that controls AI.
Even the best AI engineers don’t own what they build—their work belongs to their employer. Bitgrit flips this model by giving developers direct ownership over their AI models and ensuring they get paid every time their work is used.
AI development today relies on centralized cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. This creates a monopoly on computing power—those who control computing, control AI.
“The Rise Of Decentralized Computing Changes Everything”
But the rise of decentralized computing changes everything. Technologies like IPFS and blockchain-powered cloud solutions are making high-performance computing affordable, censorship-resistant, and permissionless.
We are positioned to integrate these decentralized computing networks, ensuring AI development isn’t bottlenecked by Big Tech’s infrastructure. This means anyone, anywhere, can access the computational power needed to build and deploy cutting-edge AI models. By removing centralized gatekeepers, we ensure AI computing power is available to the entire community, not just a select few.
“Most AI Platforms Exploit Developers”
Most AI platforms exploit developers—we do the opposite. Here, AI models are owned by their creators, not the platform, ensuring developers retain full control and receive automatic, transparent revenue every time their models are used. By leveraging blockchain, Bitgrit eliminates middlemen, making AI development fair, decentralized, and rewarding for those who actually build it.
Unlike centralized AI marketplaces, we turn AI into an asset class. Models and datasets are tokenized, tradable, and investable, allowing developers, businesses, and investors to stake in promising AI projects and share in their success. Smart contracts execute instant licensing payments, ensuring no hidden fees and no corporate control—just an open, accessible AI economy.
AI’s future isn’t just human-to-machine, it’s machine-to-machine collaboration.
With decentralized governance, transparent monetization, and AI-to-AI communication, Bitgrit is reshaping the future of intelligence.
Role And Utility Of BGR Token
The BGR Network transforms AI ownership, turning it into a brand-new asset class. Nearly 20% of the revenue generated by any model or dataset goes to its stakers. The staking pool lets anyone stake their BGR tokens on a model they believe will succeed. It’s simple—stake your tokens, lock them for a few months, and benefit pro-rata from the pool’s revenue. This mechanism rewards belief in innovation and quantifies the value of these AI assets.
The BGR token does more than just connect stakeholders—it connects AIs themselves. By becoming the automated backbone for AI-to-AI communication, the BGR token will enable models to collaborate, share data, and access each other autonomously. This seamless integration is paving the way for the next frontier: artificial super intelligence, where AI systems can think, reason, and learn better than humans.
As BGR operates at the intersection of AI and blockchain technologies, it also brings its large community of AI developers to participate in the Web3 ecosystem. In addition to transaction validation on the network, AI assets are validated by the developer community through a peer and expert review process before being onboarded on-chain. This ensures a decentralised decision-making process in the quality control of AI models and datasets in the Bitgrit ecosystem.
Over time, the BGR Network would allow the community to vote on all important decisions pertaining to the Bitgrit ecosystem.
About Bitgrit
Bitgrit is a democratic AI ecosystem that helps companies discover and license community-developed AI on its marketplace, crowdsource custom AI models through competitions, and recruit top data science talent from a community of 35,000+ AI developers on our platform. With its patented GritBox technology, Bitgrit allows developers to train their AI models on private data without ever accessing the data itself.
With 37,000+ members spread across 62 countries on the platform, Bitgrit is home to one of the largest AI developer communities in the world.
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