Pi Network Ventures首笔投资落地OpenMind，探索区块链+AI真实应用

First Investment in AI Infrastructure

Pi Network ( also known as Pi Coin, Pi Token, π Coin) Ventures announces the completion of its first investment, targeting OpenMind — an innovative company focused on developing robot operating systems and open protocols. OpenMind is dedicated to building an “Android system for the robotics field,” enabling robots to think, learn, and collaborate within a decentralized ecosystem. This investment aligns perfectly with Pi Network Ventures’ three core objectives: increasing Pi’s utility, bringing more real-world production activities into the Pi network, and advancing Pi into real-world use cases.

In addition to the investment, Pi Network and OpenMind have successfully completed a proof-of-concept project where volunteer Pi node operators ran an image recognition AI model for OpenMind, demonstrating the feasibility of Pi node operators executing computational tasks for third-party organizations. This experiment explored the capability of Pi’s global node network to support decentralized AI training and computational tasks, providing new uses beyond safeguarding the Pi ledger. By converting unused computing power into productive work, AI products can pay Pi to Pi node operators to meet computing demands, while Pi node operators can earn Pi through this additional node utility.

Unlocking the Utility of Decentralized Node Networks

Pi Network has a global network of over 350,000 active nodes, and its energy-efficient consensus algorithm means that protecting the ledger does not require all available computing capacity. This preserves a large amount of unused computational resource, creating valuable assets capable of enabling new utilities such as decentralized cloud computing.

By allowing nodes to run AI computations, Pi opens up new verticals for ecosystem utility and economic activity. Organizations needing AI computing power may be able to pay Pi to node operators for additional capacity. This develops an accessible and cost-effective decentralized cloud computing market.

This vision can be further expanded by integrating Pi’s decentralized labor network with its computational layer, allowing AI model developers to access human feedback and computational resources within the same ecosystem. Pi aims to create a self-sustaining environment where people contribute labor, provide computing, and earn Pi — driving the next wave of AI development through decentralized participation.

Building a Blockchain Ecosystem for an AI-Driven World

OpenMind is developing infrastructure enabling robots and intelligent systems to interact safely without relying on a single vendor ecosystem. Its hardware-agnostic OM1 operating system supports integrating intelligent machines into real-world environments, while the FABRIC protocol allows machines to verify identities, share contexts, and coordinate.

In an AI-driven world where productivity and transactions are increasingly executed by AI agents, payment methods and accessibility for these agents will become critical features. OpenMind seeks to build a shared intelligence layer to support cross-industry machine collaboration — from autonomous logistics to industrial automation — and contribute to the development of interoperable AI application layers. Empowering this layer is vital to ensuring that the benefits of AI are fairly distributed among human participants.

Investing in OpenMind supports a broader vision of preparing a technological and ecological environment integrated with real Pi utility in an AI-driven world.