What is Sahara AI?
- Founder: Sean Ren
- Launch: April 2023
- Use Cases: Build and monetize AI models, datasets, and agents; contribute compute or data for rewards; facilitate private, collaborative AI development
- Technology: Cosmos SDK–based EVM-compatible blockchain, decentralized asset protocols, homomorphic encryption for data privacy
Sahara AI is a decentralized, full-stack AI-native blockchain platform built to democratize artificial intelligence development and usage. The goal is to let anyone—from solo developers to large enterprises—build, train, deploy, and monetize AI models, datasets, agents, and applications in an open ecosystem. Sahara provides core infrastructure: a purpose-built Sahara Blockchain for transparent provenance and asset ownership, a Data Services Platform for crowdsourced data labeling and refinement, developer tools (SDKs, APIs, no-code interfaces), and a decentralized AI Marketplace where creators earn revenue from usage, licensing, or royalties. The blockchain layer ensures attribution, secure vaults for AI assets, and on-chain compensation via smart contracts.Sahara AI seeks to open up AI innovation, reduce centralization, and give contributors full control and reward for their work.