Aethir is delighted to announce that AI Protocol, a decentralized network for autonomous intelligence, has joined our rapidly growing ecosystem of 150+ customers, utilizing our decentralized GPU cloud to power a new category of live, onchain AI agents - soulbound intelligence.
With the backing of Aethir’s globally distributed GPU network, our latest customer, AI Protocol is building the foundation for decentralized AI. Aethir’s GPU-as-a-Service network will provide AI Protocol with premium, high-performance compute to help expand AI capabilities and reliably support always-on, real-time agentic AI in production.
About AI Protocol: Agentic Infrastructure for Soulbound Intelligence
AI Protocol is a public, permissionless protocol designed to support persistent, autonomous AI agents that operate continuously onchain.
Rather than treating AI as a session-based service, AI Protocol introduces Soulbound Intelligence – agents with immutable identity, persistent memory, and native economic participation. These agents are designed to exist indefinitely, interacting with users, generating value, and sustaining their own operation over time.
AI Protocol provides the orchestration layer that coordinates language models, voice synthesis, expressive animation, and economic logic as a single, continuous system. This unified architecture ensures that agents maintain consistent personality, context, and state across hours or days of uninterrupted operation.
The RUMI agent is the first production deployment of this model, serving as a live reference for how autonomous intelligence can operate at scale on decentralized infrastructure.
Watch Rumi live now: https://agents.aiprotocol.info/livestreaming/0x88260a8878497916df729f848efb5cfed662c74bn
Why AI Protocol Chose Aethir
As AI Protocol expands its agentic AI operations with new services and products, it requires a trustworthy, cost-effective GPU computing provider that can scale easily without supply chain bottlenecks.
Here’s why AI Protocol chose Aethir:
- Cost-effective cloud computing: With Aethir, AI Protocol avoids the high fees and hidden costs of centralized cloud providers. Aethir offers up to 86% cheaper AI inference compute than centralized hyperscalers.
- No virtualization overhead: Aethir provides AI Protocol with bare-metal GPU clusters, ideal for agentic AI workloads without the overhead of virtualization.
- Rapid global GPU deployment: Aethir has over 439,000 GPU Containers in its decentralized cloud network spanning 94 countries and 200+ locations, enabling AI Protocol to deploy workloads within 48 hours, which is essential for AI development.
- Seamless scalability: Aethir can easily transition AI Protocol’s AI workloads to dedicated NVIDIA H100/H200 GPU clusters with no CapEx, meaning real-time AI scalability.
Rumi relies on multiple real-time GPU workloads running simultaneously and continuously, including. This integration is already live through AI Protocol’s Genesis Launchpad, with Rumi serving as the first production deployment on aiprotocol.info.
These workloads cannot be paused, queued, or batched. Aethir’s elastic GPU architecture enables each capability to scale independently while remaining synchronized, ensuring uninterrupted, real-time performance.
Supporting the Future of Agentic AI With High-Performance GPU Computing
Aethir’s enterprise-grade decentralized GPU cloud supports over 150 partners and clients from across the AI, Web3, and gaming sectors, including 25+ companies focused on AI agents. Aethir’s customers have a scalable, cost-effective compute provider that offers flexible computing services ideal for the future of Agentic AI.
AI Protocol can seamlessly scale its operations, knowing Aethir’s GPU network is ready to support its latest agentic AI models at all times.
As engagement fluctuates or traffic spikes, Aethir automatically adjusts GPU capacity in real time based on latency, utilization, and demand signals. Additional nodes are brought online as needed, and workloads are dynamically rerouted if any provider experiences degradation.
From the user’s perspective, scaling is seamless. Rumi continues speaking and streaming without interruption, demonstrating how decentralized GPU infrastructure can support real-time AI agents at scale.
Powering the Agentic AI Era
“With Aethir, the AI Protocol finally has a trustworthy, decentralized cloud computing platform as its compute provider to power the next generation of our agentic AI projects. We believe that Soulbound Intelligence Agents will reach massive global expansion in the coming years, and Aethir’s GPU network is exactly what we need to scale dynamically, in line with market demands,” said AI Protocol’s representative, Mr Fahad Sabeeh.
“AI Protocol’s agentic AI expertise in research and development represents the pinnacle of AI agent innovation. As passionate believers in AI innovation, we at Aethir believe agentic AI carries unprecedented opportunities across numerous industries, and we are proud to support AI Protocol in pushing the boundaries of innovative AI agents,” said Kyle Okamoto, Aethir’s CTO.
AI Protocol & Aethir: Paving the Road for Agentic AI Expansion
AI Protocol’s visionary work in the agentic AI sector is creating unprecedented opportunities for users and enterprises looking to leverage the power of AI agents in their day-to-day operations. This innovative AI industry niche is highly dynamic, as AI agents can be trained for an endless number of purposes but require substantial GPU compute resources that are reliable, scalable, and cost-effective.
As AI Protocol expands its ecosystem of Soulbound Intelligence agents, with RUMI being the first of its kind, Aethir’s infrastructure will continue to support the next generation of decentralized, real-time AI systems – built to scale without centralized constraints. The synergy between AI Protocol and Aethir is clear - with Aethir under the hood, AI Protocol has a trustworthy compute provider that can easily scale with growing compute demand.
