Funding & Investment - Gaia Labs raised $20 million across Seed and Series A to scale decentralized AI infrastructure [1] - ByteTrade/SIG and Mirana/Mantle are lead investors [1] - Outlier Ventures, NGC, Taisu Ventures, Consensys Mesh are among the visionary partners [1] Product & Technology - Gaia is launching the first AI-native smartphone designed for user-owned intelligence [1] - The Gaia AI Phone is built on Galaxy S25 Edge hardware and runs decentralized AI inference locally [2] - Gaia is building the backbone of a decentralized AI economy [1] - Gaia's open inference network has over 700 thousand active nodes and 17 trillion inferences [2] - A new open-source toolkit for LLMs, agents, and devs will be launched [2] Strategic Direction - The funding accelerates cross-chain infrastructure to power AI across blockchains and data ecosystems [1] - The company aims to build a network and interface for AI as the next computing layer [2]