AI Summary
Cubic's representative explains how Cubic is a decentralized network that repurposes proof-of-work mining to train AI models, creating useful compute while tackling AI centralization.
- Cubic uses "useful proof of work" — instead of wasting electricity on pointless puzzles like Bitcoin, the same compute power trains artificial neural networks.
- The network is open-source and owned by no one; it acts as a global supercomputer made of thousands of ordinary, voluntarily connected computers.
- Cubic's core problem: AI training is concentrated in a few wealthy companies, giving them outsized control over what AI gets built and how it behaves.
- Cubic offers an alternative funding model: issuing a token to incentivize people to contribute compute power collectively, rather than relying on venture capital.
- Tens of thousands of computers are already connected and actively working on the network.
- Beyond infrastructure, Cubic aims to provide a neutral, decentralized platform for future AI agents to run on, complementing payment solutions like Payfor.
Action: If you're concerned about AI centralization, explore contributing to or building on decentralized compute networks like Cubic.
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Yeah, this is my main reason why I am with cubic because it is something different
It is something which does not exist as this on the market and we can
We can build together the future by going new paths
That's why I love to invest my time my energy and my full
Deprecation to cubic
Amazing answers in for that loving the technical details
Well for people like me who have less technical knowledge the next question is actually coming for us
For someone who's never heard of cubic
How would you describe it at a dinner table like without no jargon like people form like me commoners, you know
I give my best to
Translated I should be able to do it. So you've probably heard about Bitcoin and that
Bitcoin
Burns a huge amount of electricity by mining or with mining
and
Many people do not ask or do not know for what it is
but basically those
those
compute power those computers are solving mass puzzles in intact we call it hashing and
and
Basically this is not doing anything but just keep running to secure the network and
Those puzzles those hash are in a are made to be
hard to solve on purpose
so to have a better picture it's like paying someone to
Dig a hole and fill it back in a million times over so you repeat you basically repeat the same the same
more or less the same work over over over and again and
We took the same idea and pointed the electricity at something useful
That's why we call it on cubic not proof of work. We call it useful proof of work
This means that the compute power in our network they are not just digging holes. They are basically training ANNs
to build the future of AI infrastructure
Means the same energy but at the end of the day we have something
Different we have something additional so we don't only secure the network
But we also build at the same time with the same compute power with the same electricity something useful
What is very important is cubic is not run by any company
It's as I already mentioned it's open source. It's a decentralized network basically everybody can chain can join
You can think of it as a
super computer made by
Let's say thousand or tens of thousands of ordinary computers
Placed around the world coordinating themselves and nobody is owning it. That's cubic
Well, thank you. I'm pretty sure now everyone has a better view on the cubic
The data explanation. Thank you exactly how it should be explained for people like me
So yeah, I want to go deeper and let's go deeper with the questions and
From your position
What is the core problem cubic is solving because you said useful proof of work
So and why does the world need a decentralized AI compute network right now?
There are of course different point of view I
Start with some I think are very important
So one of the problem is is today is a concentration
You can see that training modern AI costs really a lot of money and
Only let's say a hand or maybe two hand full of companies on the earth
Can even do it?
this means that those few companies
Basically decide what AI gets built and
What AI can do or should do
Our bet is that there's another way
We say it's a better way to pay for
Such compute power so instead of raising a billion dollars from investors and make us
dependable on on those investors
we issue the token the cubic
Cubic token and tell the people that they can plug in their machines and
Connect and work together on something meaningful
With the goal that the network pays for itself of course
We've already got
tens of thousands of computers connected so which are actively working on and with
cubic and
The good thing is we don't own them so these people are
voluntarily contributing to the AI revolution on cubic and
They decide to join us. We don't have to force them and
Yeah, maybe a second thing is that
This one is closer to
To your world we're moving into an area and sorry into an era where AI
Doesn't just answer questions
So I mean today you maybe chat with chat you be or clawed and ask questions and they give you answers
But in the future or they already do it they act they are
They are maybe placing orders they they book services and
They may even pay for things so the AI is gonna be
more integrated into our all lives and
An agent that acts need two things that don't really exist yet in my opinion
It's somewhere to run that isn't once that isn't an own server of a company
and
the way to
Settle payments so what we do is we work on the first so the cubic networks gives the platform to run
future AI and
We've all come with pay for example you guys
You work on the second one to connect these two worlds together more more or less like this
Well, thank you
The problem is real and this solution is genuinely different. I can tell that and we all love the projects with real solutions
The real world problems as well as you mentioning you know
The AI is run by like handful of companies. It is always good to have a decentralized
Net AI network actually
So let's take a look at the close future
The next question is about the next six months look back for cubic right
What should the community be most excited about most the big one should the community be expecting from you guys?
Yeah, I
I mean I have a whole list of topics on this I choose
Three of them to mention to not overwhelm
First one is we are launching is so called and colony on cubic
For people who do not know cubic in detail
I told that we do a n n training on cubic so and colony is the next step of evolution on
What exactly our useful proof of work is doing and
With the next step of evolution we get
One step closer to our goal which is
The so called HCI it's
Or yeah, it's HIs artificial artificial
general intelligence so
Cubic with its training is doing research
scientific work and the next step is the ant colony which
goes one step further into a NN a NN training on cubic and
Second thing I like to mention is
I
Combined two together. It's so called outsourced computations and
Oracle machines
You can imagine cubic is is a decentralized network where where basically you can run smart contract or
Yeah, basically run smart contract on it. Let's let's leave it with like this
So what is this smart connect what is this smart contract which is not connected to the outer world?
It's an isolated piece of code which cannot do much
in the past
You saw many
projects which try to connect those isolated
pieces of code with outer world through bridges through
through
So through not trustless connections and things like this and in cubic
This smart contracts combined with Oracle machines and outsource computation is built into the core to
enable the communication from and to cubic
natively and those two
pillars of cubic are
Going to be used in the next six months. So it's like starting to
Make cubic connected to all the world outside
So this for me are these two three
topics are the are for me the most excited to see cubic evolve
in that world
Well, thank you for the detailed explanation definitely
Future is exciting and I personally will be paying attention to what is the kind of specialty and colony
That sounds interesting for sure
So we know with the next question of ours most blockchains burn energy on empty cryptographic puzzles
Cubics useful proof of work actually train the AI models instead like you said it's actually useful
So can you explain how that actually works and why it matters
Like explain like a comment a commenter understands the all
Yeah, I try so I'm the most
Let's say the most channel and important things I think I only have mentioned
I yeah, I try so
As mentioned our our lighthouse project or let's say the north star for cubic is to reach HCI and
And we don't want to do this like traditional elements. So
We yes, we want to build exactly the the foundation
The infrastructure where this future AI can live exist execute act and work on and
and
Yes, sorry and
the useful is that
Our let's call it miners. I mean there we call it also trainers or however you want to call it
So the useful is that our trainers do exactly
Help to research to reach
This goal
So that's why it's for us very useful
um
Easily said cubic does not use to compute power to just solve
cryptographical puzzles
Uh
But it uses it for the research on
2 HCI
Um, there are some let me think about we can also say that
um the
cubic itself the network allows also to
To adopt I can give you an example so
We have our
AI initiative which is called a guard and
a guard is the research project running on cubic and the
a the AI training which is coming from the miners is basically
The the compute power is redirected to this a guard research project
But it doesn't mean that this is the only one
um
We also have a cubic science team
which is working on the so-called new raxon
and the
same
compute power
can
run against a guard and or new raxon so we have the flexibility
To redirect the useful to what is really useful for the future of cubic
uh
Yeah
Any detail question on that or it's it's okay
Yeah, thank you take your great and detailed answer and i'm pretty sure everyone like enjoying it
Uh the next question is actually about halving and i'm pretty sure a lot of people want to know more about it
So the cubic halving is coming in this month actually in august
Yeah within the august so
burn rate jumping from 55