Antseed launches decentralized marketplace for AI inference
Antseed launched a peer-to-peer inference marketplace that routes requests to hundreds of independent and mainstream model providers, bypassing centralized gateways, with a self-hosted local router that lets providers set their own prices. Its controlling entity, the Antseed Foundation, closed a $2.4 million token funding round led by Spark Capital, with participation from Collider, DCG, North Island Ventures, Reciprocal Ventures, Venice.ai and Relay Capital. The company claims users can reach frontier models for up to 97% less than official API prices, and says it has processed nearly 150 billion tokens across 202 active providers — figures it reports itself.
If decentralized inference markets really cut costs, they could loosen the grip of a few model providers over inference pricing — though the claimed savings rest on the startup's own numbers.