Unlike Filecoin (which is like a historical archive) or Arweave (which is an eternal library), Walrus is designed for hot data. In the decentralized Artificial Intelligence ecosystem, the big problem is not where to store the model, but how to access its "weights" ultrafast so that an AI agent can operate without latency.
Walrus uses a data availability (DA) architecture that allows massive AI models to be fragmented into "slivers". Thanks to its native integration with Sui, smart contracts not only "point" to the model, but can interact with it almost as if it were in the system's RAM.
While other protocols fight to be the "hard drive" of the world, Walrus aims to be the cerebral cortex: the layer where AI reads and writes its knowledge in real-time without censorship.
