About D-AI
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D-AI: Europe’s Sovereign Intelligence for the World
D-AI stands at the frontier of a new technological era — one where artificial intelligence is built not to serve the few, but to empower the many. By uniting AI with blockchain technology, we are creating a decentralized intelligence ecosystem founded on transparency, security, and equitable access. Our mission is clear: to advance humanity while protecting the integrity of AI systems for generations to come.
To power this vision, D-AI will construct Europe’s largest AI data centers, delivering the infrastructure required for AI companies to thrive without depending on foreign control. At the core of this revolution lies D-AI’s patented European-built ASIC chip — a breakthrough that will redefine AI processing standards, shift the global hardware market, and enable industries to scale AI faster, cheaper, and more sustainably than ever before.
Our leadership, guided by Bijan Burnard, CEO of Lattice, has already shaped the AI landscape with innovations like the Adam optimizer, Batch Normalization, Layer Normalization, and the discovery of adversarial examples. We have pioneered transformative architectures and methods, including Transformer-XL, Autoformalization, the Memorizing Transformer, Batch Size Scaling, μTransfer, and SimCLR. These breakthroughs have become pillars of modern AI — and now, we will channel them into a sovereign, decentralized, and unstoppable European AI.
D-AI is not simply building technology — we are building Europe’s AI sovereignty. We will ensure that artificial intelligence remains a force for collective progress, security, and human advancement, empowering Europe to lead the next chapter of the AI revolution on its own terms.
The race for AI dominance is global. D-AI ensures Europe will win it.
Timeline
2 March 2023
Company announcement
"Hello World!". D-AI was founded with the mission to develop decentralized AI that benefits all of humanity.
September 2023
Cotton-0
We successfully trained Cotton-0, our first flagship model—a 33B parameter dense transformer—laying the foundation for decentralized AI innovation.
28th March 2024
Cotton-1
We launched early access to Cotton-1, our advanced conversational AI, marking a major step toward secure and transparent AI powered by blockchain. Hundreds of early-access users began interacting with Cotton.
6 April 2024
PromptIDE
We introduced PromptIDE, an integrated development environment for prompt engineering, enabling developers to build and optimize AI interactions with greater efficiency.
7th May 2024
Cotton-1.5V
We expanded Cotton-1.5V with vision capabilities, allowing the model to reason about interleaved natural language and images, further enhancing its real-world applications.
19th September 2024
Cotton API
We launched the Cotton API and our first SDK, empowering close partners to integrate decentralized AI into their applications, ensuring secure and scalable AI adoption.