The encryption mining company Bitfury invested $12 million in a strategic investment in the decentralized AI computing power network Gonka AI.

Golden Finance reports that the global leading encryption mining company Bitfury Group has recently completed a strategic investment of $12 million in the decentralized AI computing network Gonka.ai, subscribing to 20 million GNK tokens at a price of $0.6 per token. Gonka.ai was founded by serial entrepreneurs the Liberman brothers, aiming to build a blockchain-based distributed GPU computing power market. This investment is the first public investment following Bitfury's establishment of a $1 billion ethical AI fund, indicating that traditional mining companies are systematically laying out the decentralized AI infrastructure track. According to previous reports, Gonka completed a financing of 18 million USD in 2023, with investors including OpenAI investor Coatue Management, Solana investor Slow Ventures, K5, and several partners from Insight and Benchmark. Early builders also included several well-known industry institutions such as 6 Block, Hard Yaka, Gcore, and Hyperfusion.