Sahara AI Launches Public Testnet 'SIWA'... Partnerships with AWS, Google Cloud, and More

Artificial Intelligence (AI) blockchain startup Sahara AI announced on the 20th that it has officially launched the public testnet 'SIWA' and has embarked on building an ecosystem for decentralized AI development.

SIWA is the core infrastructure of the Sahara blockchain that allows key assets like datasets or AI models to be registered on-chain, prove ownership, and enable licensing and revenue sharing. Before the mainnet launch, this testnet is designed to allow developers and contributors to directly experience and verify these protocols.

During the private testnet phase before the public testnet, Sahara AI secured over 3.2 million accounts, 1.4 million daily active users (DAU), and more than 200,000 users of the Data Service Platform (DSP).

The launch of the SIWA testnet is the first phase in Sahara AI's mainnet launch roadmap. This phase focuses on the on-chain ownership of data, allowing contributors to directly register and tokenize their datasets. The second phase will expand into a permissionless open-source testnet where anyone can freely participate, and the third phase will introduce AI pipeline registration, contribution tracking, and proof of contribution features.

Along with the SIWA launch, Sahara AI unveiled over 40 new partners and clients, including AWS, Google Cloud, UC Berkeley, Together AI, and Quicknode. This expands the global AI and blockchain ecosystem further, alongside existing collaborations with Microsoft, Amazon, MIT, and USC.

In the future, Sahara AI plans to gradually release major applications such as the AI development platform, AI marketplace, and Data Service Platform (DSP). The DSP will be publicly available on May 27. It is designed to allow distributed participants to contribute to data collection and labeling tasks, ensuring data accuracy and reliability through a decentralized peer review and reward system and quality verification process.

Sean Ren, co-founder of Sahara AI, stated, "AI operates on the data of billions of people, yet no one is properly compensated," adding, "Sahara AI is not just a blockchain; it's a practical movement to make the AI ecosystem more equitable."