Web3 is increasingly focused on DePIN and decentralized compute to meet the exploding demand for AI infrastructure - cheaper, trustless alternatives to centralized clouds.

Four projects capturing this shift right now:

Fluence $FLT: Serverless compute layer where devs deploy code on a global network of nodes, cutting costs for AI inference and dApps while keeping data private.

Bittensor $TAO : P2P marketplace for machine intelligence - miners and validators earn by sharing AI models and compute, enabling collaborative decentralized ML.

Render $RNDR : On-demand GPU rental from idle hardware worldwide, powering rendering and AI workloads without big cloud markups.

Akash $AKT : Open marketplace for containerized compute, auctioning underused resources to make high-performance infra accessible and transparent.

These projects are quietly building the backbone for a decentralized compute economy. Worth watching as AI needs keep growing.