Spark leads $2.4M: Antseed aims to be the BitTorrent of AI inference.

October 6 — The P2P AI inference network Antseed has officially launched, while also disclosing that the nonprofit Antseed Foundation has completed a $2.4 million token round of financing. Spark Capital led the round, with participation from Collider, DCG, North Island Ventures, Reciprocal Ventures, Relay Capital, and Venice.ai. It aims to bring BitTorrent's peer-to-peer model to AI inference, allowing different providers to directly sell models and Agent services.

After users run Antseed's local router on their computers, they can connect tools such as Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode to the same address. Each call is routed by the router to select a provider based on price, speed, reputation, and privacy conditions, with fees settled directly in USDC on Base. Providers, in turn, can run their own local models, fine-tuned models, or other AI services and set their own prices.

Its biggest difference from OpenRouter is that there is no unified platform in the middle responsible for forwarding. Buyers connect directly to providers, while Antseed handles discovery, routing, reputation, and payment protocols. Ordinary providers can still see the prompts they process; users can also choose providers verified through TEE, allowing requests to run in a trusted execution environment (using hardware to isolate request content).

Antseed is also continuing to improve verification mechanisms such as model fingerprints, signed responses, and auditing to prevent providers from passing off cheap models as more expensive ones. The code is already open source, and the network is actually usable, though GitHub still has compatibility issues with Codex, Claude Desktop, and others that are being addressed. It is closer to a rapidly iterating "decentralized OpenRouter."