Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and decentralized AI infrastructure company Zero Gravity (0G) have launched a S$5 million joint research center to advance blockchain-powered artificial intelligence technologies.
The collaboration, 0G’s first with a university, aims to develop more transparent, accessible and accountable AI systems.
The partnership will fund multiple projects exploring decentralized AI training, blockchain-integrated model alignment, and proof-of-useful-work consensus mechanisms.
By using blockchain, the initiative aims to record and verify every stage of AI processing, unlike conventional systems that operate in closed environments.
The four-year initiative includes workshops, hackathons, trade shows and open-source collaborations to cultivate Asia’s emerging decentralized AI community.
The first proof-of-concept results are expected within two years, with pilot applications focused on finance, healthcare and smart infrastructure.
“Our mission is to make AI a public good,” said Michael Heinrich, CEO and co-founder of 0G. “By working with NTU, we are joining a global leader in blockchain and computing research to go beyond centralized AI monopolies. Together we will build an open ecosystem where developers, institutions and communities can contribute, verify and audit.”
NTU’s College of Computing and Data Science and its Center in Computational Technologies for Finance (CCTF) will lead research into scalable model training, AI governance and blockchain-based security frameworks, strengthening Singapore’s position as a hub for open and decentralized AI innovation.