Bitcoin mining company Bitfury Group recently completed a $12 million strategic investment in the decentralized AI computing network Gonka.ai, purchasing 20 million GNK tokens at $0.6 per token. Founded by serial entrepreneurs the Lieberman brothers, Gonka.ai aims to build a blockchain-based distributed GPU computing power market. This investment is Bitfury's first publicly disclosed investment since establishing a $1 billion ethical AI fund, indicating that traditional mining companies are systematically deploying in the decentralized AI infrastructure sector. According to public data, Gonka's network already has over 5,000 equivalent NVIDIA H100 series GPUs in computing power, and supports nearly 20 mainstream AI devices, including the 3080, 4090, H100, and H200, forming a distributed computing power cluster. This is expected to break the monopoly of NVIDIA and cloud service providers and significantly reduce AI development costs. As previously reported, Gonka completed an $18 million funding round in 2023, with investors including OpenAI investor Coatue Management, Solana investor Slow Ventures, K5, Insight, and several partners from Benchmark. Early investors also included several well-known industry institutions such as 6 Block, Hard Yaka, Gcore, and Hyperfusion. (Forbes)