Sovereign AI Access Company Appoints 0G Labs and Manifest Network to Lead Decentralized AI Industry Steering Committee

The Sovereign AI Access Company has announced the addition of two founding members to its Decentralized AI Steering Committee and Treasury, with Manifest Network representing the DeAI Compute sector and 0G Labs, the parent company of the 0G blockchain, representing DeAI Training. This committee, composed of industry leaders at the intersection of AI and blockchain, aims to drive interoperability and commercialization of decentralized AI platforms, applications, and agents, seeking to standardize and vertically align the components of the rapidly evolving blockchain-based AI industry.

As recognized leaders in decentralized AI, 0G and Manifest bring next-generation blockchain solutions to the market. 0G's AI-optimized blockchain operating system, detailed at https://0g.ai, unlocks unprecedented large-scale AI model training directly on-chain for the first time, introducing essential speed, scalability, and robust process controls that bring new guardrails to the AI sector. Manifest Network's "Sovereign Soldiers" have built and deployed a first-of-its-kind, distributed, enterprise-grade AI server network, providing a permissionless compute network that offers the security and performance of private AI infrastructure with the ease-of-use and on-demand scalability of traditional cloud services.

The Sovereign AI Access Company serves as an implementation and commercialization team for the projects it holds in its Treasury, enabling infrastructure deployment at scale, strategic investment, and broad investor participation in the DeAI economy. Its carefully curated DeAI Steering Committee provides strategic direction for the broader DeAI community, with the ability to directly assist and incentivize projects to adopt technical standards, thereby improving vertical alignment across the industry. According to Eric Bravick of Manifest Network, "This is about creating durable infrastructure and interoperability standards that will allow DeAI to grow outside the boundaries of big tech and centralized clouds. We are designing a system that benefits developers, operators, and institutional partners alike."

As a Layer1, 0G Labs has pioneered the first high-speed, low-latency blockchain, 0G, which delivers decentralized, scalable web3 infrastructure optimized for AI workloads, with a token-driven ecosystem supporting applications, agents, and trusted execution environments. Together with other steering members, 0G and Manifest will steward capital allocations, set technology standards, and drive ecosystem adoption and expansion. John Sarson, CEO and Founder of the Sovereign AI Access Company, stated, "We see this as a turning point for decentralized AI. By combining public company structure with real-world infrastructure deployment, we are creating a framework that can support both innovation and collaboration. Technology stacks need to stabilize and standardize. Manifest and 0G each represent the leading technologies in their segments of the market."

Sarson Funds, Inc., serves as the company's financial partner and Treasury manager, assisting with capital market transactions, compliance, and operational support for SAAC. With active guidance from the DeAI Steering Committee, SAAC and Sarson Funds collaborate to standardize the DeAI industry and drive vertical integration. Members of SAAC share a common vision that fair and open access to AI and compute will be a fundamental need in the protection of personal liberty. According to DeAI Steering Committee member W. Reed Baum, "In order to effectively compete with AI offerings from already vertically-aligned big tech competitors, the DeAI industry needs to build systems that are interoperable and easily accessible. In a world where training AI models can cost hundreds of millions of dollars, effective decentralized, permissionless networks are humanity's best chance to preserve the individual's ability to access private AI solutions."