Rebuilding the Energy Network of the AI Era:The Birth of the MetaComput Project
Throughout the long arc of technological evolution, every epochal leap has begun with a fundamental reconstruction of infrastructure.
The Industrial Revolution was powered by steam.
The Information Age accelerated through electricity.
Now, the Age of Intelligence — the AI era — is redefining everything at unprecedented speed.
And behind AI, the true driving force is not just algorithms, but the underlying energy: Compute Power.
In early 2023, at a critical inflection point marked by rapid AI breakthroughs and surging industrial adoption, a silent revolution around the “foundations of the AI future” began to take shape.
MetaComput, a next-generation intelligent infrastructure project, was born from this global context.
As tools like ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and other generative AI platforms swept the globe, AI models evolved rapidly — from text to image, audio, video, and now multimodal fusion.
Meanwhile, the scale of training parameters, deployment density, and inference frequency exploded exponentially.
Yet, while large corporations thrived, developers and small-to-mid-sized AI companies increasingly faced critical bottlenecks:
- Skyrocketing compute costs
- Unstable resource access
- Geographic barriers to infrastructure
According to Gartner, by 2026, the compute power needed for global AI model training will be 40 times higher than in 2022.
OpenAI data shows that training GPT-3 alone required over 36,400 A100 GPUs running continuously for weeks — relying not just on algorithmic excellence, but on a vast intelligent energy system supporting it.
This trend is triggering a deep anxiety across industries:
As algorithms evolve faster than ever, it is no longer “technology” that limits AI innovation and adoption — it is the availability, sustainability, and democratization of Compute Power.
The Global Reality: Centralization Crisis in Compute Power
Today, over 90% of the world’s core AI compute resources are controlled by five tech giants:
Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and NVIDIA.
This hyper-centralization has turned AI compute into a “closed energy system,” where resource access, allocation, and economic benefits are heavily concentrated among a few corporations.
Meanwhile, across the globe, millions of underutilized computing assets remain idle — from enterprise GPU clusters and edge servers, to underused data centers and countless intelligent devices.
These wasted compute resources are the untapped digital energy reserves of the new era.
The MetaComput Response: A Systemic Answer for the Future
How can we connect these fragmented islands of compute power?
How can we activate compute as a liquid, incentivized, and governable resource network?
How can we empower users globally — not just to use AI, but to own, invest, and share in its prosperity?
MetaComput was conceived as a comprehensive answer to these questions.
Its birth was no accident.
It was jointly driven by three strategically complementary forces:
1. Meta FAIR (Facebook AI Research)
As the frontier AI research division of Meta, FAIR has led major breakthroughs in Transformer architectures, AI Avatar systems, and large-scale language modeling.
FAIR’s internal research clearly recognizes the future of AI training must become distributed, modular, and decentralized.
MetaComput is one of its strategic initiatives aimed at standardizing decentralized compute protocols for the AI era.
2. DeepX Edge
Based in Southeast Asia, DeepX Edge specializes in AI edge computing and GPU data center operations.
With over 60 standardized GPU data centers across Singapore, South Korea, the UAE, France, and beyond,
DeepX Edge brings extensive global coverage, low energy costs, and controllable node networks — making it an ideal partner for building MetaComput’s scalable backbone.
3. SoftBank Vision Fund
As one of the world’s largest technology investors, the SoftBank Vision Fund has backed Arm, OpenAI, Nuro, and Boston Dynamics, among other key players in the AI value chain.
Its global capital network and ecosystem resources are critical in enabling MetaComput’s cross-regional deployment and scaling.
MetaQuant Foundation: A New Global Stewardship Model
To ensure long-term governance and uphold international standards, the three founding forces established a non-profit governance entity: the MetaQuant Foundation.
Operating under the principles of openness, fairness, and sustainability, MetaQuant Foundation is responsible for:
- Setting technical standards and global node interoperability protocols
- Designing the MCT (MetaCompute Token) incentive model and on-chain asset architecture
- Certifying and onboarding global node operators under compliance frameworks
- Establishing strategic collaboration channels across AI firms, chip manufacturers, and DePIN ecosystems
MetaQuant ensures that MetaComput remains technologically neutral, globally credible, and paves the way for the platform’s eventual DAO governance model and node-based voting systems.
MetaComput: Beyond a Platform — A New Global Energy Order
MetaComput’s founding vision is not simply to provide compute services,
but to fundamentally rebuild the intelligent energy infrastructure of the AI age.
From centralization to decentralization.
From consumption to ownership.
From resource extraction to value co-creation.
MetaComput aspires to create an open, participatory, and collectively-owned supply network for intelligence.
It is not merely a cloud computing alternative —
It is the reconstruction of the intelligent world’s energy grid.
It is not just a platform —
It is a protocol layer for connecting global compute assets.
In the future:
- Every unit of computewill become a new type of productive resource.
- Every contribution of computewill be a meaningful act of value creation.
- Every nodewill not just be a user — but an owner.
MetaComput begins here,
charting the road toward the intelligent energy networks of tomorrow.