About

Gradient is an AI R&D lab pioneering the Open Intelligence Stack (OIS), a fully decentralized infrastructure on Solana for distributed AI training, serving, and agentic systems. Key products include:

• Parallax for scalable model serving
• Echo for reinforcement learning
• Gradient Cloud for enterprise-grade deployments.

As a DePIN network, it transforms idle devices into compute nodes via the Chrome extension, rewarding participants with points.

History

Gradient Network was co-founded by Yuan Gao and Eric Yang and the project is focusing on a decentralized artificial intelligence infrastructure project that was formally established in 2024.

By November 2024, the development team shipped four Sentry Node iterations (v1.0.13 to v1.0.16) within a single month, demonstrating rapid product iteration and community-focused development.

The team raised a $10M in a round led by Pantera and Multicoin Capital with participation from HSG and other distinguished partners. This milestone is further supported by leading angel investors and advisors from spaces across AI, crypto, and beyond.

The capital injection was designated to accelerate development of Gradient's two flagship protocols: Lattica, a P2P data transmission protocol similar to Bitcoin and Torrent technologies, and Parallax, an inference protocol designed to improve AI scalability.

By August 2025, the team also released Echo - a scaling reinforcement learning (RL) on distributed consumer hardware.

In October 2025, the team open sourced Parallax, allowing users to self-host and fully own their AI applications without relying on centralized cloud infrastructure. Furthermore, the team also integrated the Kimi K2 model by the end of the same month.

In November 2025, Gradient announced a strategic partnership with Zai to integrate GLM-4.6 on the Parallax platform. The key highlights of this partnership include enhanced coding capabilities, a 200K token context window for handling complex tasks, and improved agentic reliability.