Empowering Decentralized AI Inference at Scale
Company Overview
Inferium is building the world's first decentralized infrastructure hub for verifiable inference and AI agents. Their mission is to make AI model deployment, usage, and evaluation transparent, efficient, and accessible. By bridging the gap between developers and users, Inferium provides a trusted, performance-driven ecosystem where AI models are benchmarked, scored, and rewarded based on real-world performance and human feedback.
Their platform primarily supports sectors such as finance, healthcare, gaming, and autonomous systems—industries increasingly dependent on reliable and scalable AI-powered applications.
Challenge
Before partnering with Aethir, Inferium faced several critical barriers to scaling their infrastructure:
- High compute costs associated with traditional, centralized cloud providers.
- GPU shortages and limited scalability, which made it difficult to meet increasing inference demand.
- Lack of flexibility to scale infrastructure dynamically without long-term commitments.
- Difficulty ensuring transparent, predictable pricing as operational costs grew.
This created bottlenecks for their goal to provide decentralized, scalable, and verifiable AI inference.
Solution
To address these challenges, Inferium partnered with Aethir’s decentralized GPU cloud network, leveraging:
✅ NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPUs
✅ Bare-metal infrastructure in Aethir’s South Korea data center
This deployment provided Inferium with enterprise-grade GPU performance without virtualization overhead, ensuring maximum compute efficiency.
Aethir’s decentralized model aligned perfectly with Inferium’s mission of democratizing AI access. The partnership enabled Inferium to:
- Access high-performance GPUs on demand
- Reduce compute costs significantly
- Scale inference capacity predictably and flexibly
Results
With Aethir, Inferium has unlocked substantial operational and business benefits:
- Cost Efficiency & Budget Reallocation:
Aethir’s transparent and affordable GPU pricing allowed Inferium to redirect budget towards core initiatives like model curation, human evaluation, and Proof-of-Inference development.
- Scalability:
Inferium was able to support over 200,000+ inference requests to date, handling 4,000 to 5,000 daily requests without infrastructure constraints.
- Performance Highlights:
Inferium’s decentralized inference platform today powers a fast-growing user base of 280,000+ total users, with over 8,000 DAUs and a peak DAU of 55,000+. Their engagement metrics are strong, with 60% average MoM growth and 40% D30 retention rate.
Customer Success Story
One standout example from Inferium’s community includes the successful deployment of multiple benchmarked AI models in Southeast Asia’s developer network. Through Aethir’s infrastructure, Inferium empowered small AI teams and independent developers to launch real-time AI inference services—without upfront infrastructure costs—allowing them to monetize and benchmark their models within weeks.
Unexpected Benefits
Beyond cost savings, Inferium experienced several unexpected advantages:
- No bandwidth or hidden fees, providing full cost predictability.
- Bare-metal performance without the "noisy neighbor" problem of traditional cloud setups.
- Ecosystem credibility: Working alongside Aethir’s decentralized infrastructure validated Inferium's long-term strategy to promote trust and transparency in AI compute.
Quote
"Aethir’s decentralized GPU infrastructure has been a game-changer for Inferium. It’s not just about cost savings—Aethir enables us to scale inference globally, deliver reliable performance, and stay true to our decentralized vision. We highly recommend Aethir to any enterprise looking to unlock scalable, transparent, and cost-effective AI compute."
— Inferium Team
Looking Ahead
As Inferium continues to scale, their collaboration with Aethir is set to deepen. Future plans include:
- Further optimization of AI inference workflows on Aethir’s infrastructure.
- Expansion into additional markets and data centers.
- Continued joint marketing campaigns to drive decentralized AI adoption.
Why It Matters
This partnership exemplifies how Aethir’s decentralized GPU network delivers enterprise-grade, predictable, and scalable compute power—empowering next-generation AI platforms like Inferium to drive transparency, efficiency, and global accessibility.