Pi Network’s 50M Devices and the Future of Decentralized AI

From phone app to global compute grid

Before talking about “50 million nodes reshaping AI,” it helps to look at what Pi Network actually has today.

Pi began as a smartphone mining app and grew into one of the largest retail crypto communities, with tens of millions of registered “Pioneers.”

Behind the mobile layer sits a smaller but crucial group: desktop and laptop “Pi Nodes” running the network software. That’s where the AI angle starts. In Pi’s early AI experiments with OpenMind, hundreds of thousands of these nodes were used to…