Dialogue with GAIB Founder Kony: Tokenizing Computing Power, How GAIB Will Become the Economic Layer of AI

Interviewer: Emily Lai

2024 is the year when AI becomes mainstream, and "computing power" emerges as one of the key terms that attract the attention of retail investors for the first time.

Behind this intelligent revolution, GAIB chooses to enter the AI industry at its most fundamental level—GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), hoping to transform it into a new type of asset through on-chain financial mechanisms.

In this trend where technology meets capital, GAIB's founder and CEO Kony has his own set of ideas.

This is not a story about speculation, but a startup vision centered around "new assets, new currencies, and new capital structures."

"Computing power is the hard currency of the AI world"

Emily: Can you introduce GAIB in one sentence?

Kony: We turn GPUs into assets and break down AI into an investable track. GAIB is building the infrastructure for an on-chain economy for AI and computing power.

Emily: What is your view on computing power?

Kony: It is the energy of AI, essentially like electricity. You can think of data as fuel, models as engines, but what drives everything is computing power. If Bitcoin is digital gold, then GPUs are the power plants of the digital age.

Emily: As a user of AI applications, I often use tools like Midjourney, Canva's AI, Claude AI, etc. These AI models indeed require a lot of computing power during training, right?

Kony: That's right. The process from training to inference of AI models is extremely reliant on GPUs. For example, Grok3 deployed on X used 100,000 H100s, worth over $2.5 billion. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Tesla's robotics division—without computing power, everything goes to zero.

"The AI economy is a smile curve, and GAIB aims to rewrite its left half"

Emily: What is the opportunity behind GAIB entering this field?

Kony: You can think of the entire AI industry as a "smile curve": the right side is To C applications, like Midjourney; the left side is AI infrastructure, like cloud/data centers. However, the problem on the left side is the limited financing methods.

Data centers and cloud service providers need to purchase a large number of GPUs, but their financing methods are stuck in equity, bank loans, etc., which are very inefficient. We want to provide a new path: allowing them to assetize GPUs on-chain and release liquidity.

Emily: This sounds like an "on-chain cloud bond"?

Kony: It's closer to "computing power asset tokenization." We are not issuing bonds; we are transforming the GPUs themselves into user-configurable on-chain assets. We want them to become tradable commodities like gold and oil.

"AID - The exclusive currency of the AI computing economy"

Emily: How does GAIB enable users to participate in the AI economy?

Kony: Our product is called AID (AI Dollar), which is the first AI synthetic asset. You can think of it as the "USDT" of the AI economy. Users can deposit stablecoins (like USDT), and GAIB will lend this portion of assets to cloud/data centers, which are GPU asset holders and operators, generating real cash flow returns.

As an AID holder, you can share in this portion of the returns. What we aim to do is not "issue tokens for speculation," but to establish an AI capital economy with real rental income.

Emily: Where does the revenue come from?

Kony: The revenue comes from the real demand for GPU usage—AI companies pay for computing power, which is the most genuine and robust cash flow in the AI economy.

"Investment products in the AI world shouldn't just be about speculating on tokens"

Emily: What do you think is the correct angle for the combination of AI and Crypto?

Kony: Many people currently treat AI as a narrative and invest with a meme-driven mindset, but that's misaligned. We focus on the infrastructure of AI; it is a certain direction, not narrative speculation.

What we want to build is a financial layer in the AI economy that connects on-chain funds with off-chain resource demands using real assets, real needs, and real returns.

Emily: How do you see the long-term positioning of AID?

Kony: AID is the "base currency" of the AI era. It is not for trading but for participating in a real computing power economy. In this sense, it is even more supported than stablecoins.

"Every wave of intelligence requires a financial system behind it"

Emily: As an entrepreneur, what is your view on the current environment?

Kony: AI will be the next world-class industry, but its underlying capital structure is not yet established. GPUs are the most scarce resource, yet they have not become a standard asset. What GAIB is doing, to put it simply, is building a "Wall Street" for AI, creating a market for computing power that can be freely traded like commodities such as gold and oil, unlocking its financial utility.

Emily: What role do you hope GAIB will play?

Kony: I hope we can become the first platform in this era that allows "anyone to invest in AI infrastructure."

Imagine the next ten years—AI is a hundred times more important than now, and computing power is ten times scarcer. By then, people might ask, "Did you allocate GPU assets in 2025?"

I hope GAIB is part of that answer.