Opportunity: Growth of AI

The AI market has experienced exponential growth

The artificial intelligence industry is undergoing rapid and sustained expansion. According to market research, the global AI market is expected to grow from approximately $197 billion in 2023 to over $1.4 trillion by 2030, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 37%. This surge is fueled by exponential improvements in model performance, broader accessibility to open-source tools, and growing enterprise adoption across virtually every vertical—ranging from healthcare and legal automation to trading, content creation, and data analytics.

A particularly fast-growing segment within this broader landscape is the AI agent—or "model"—ecosystem. These autonomous AI entities can reason, communicate, and act in specific domains with minimal human supervision. Valued at $1.3 billion in 2020, the AI agent market grew to $3.9 billion by 2023 and is expected to reach $47 billion by 2030. This subsector, driven by innovations in natural language processing (NLP), reinforcement learning, and agentic design, represents one of the highest-velocity areas of innovation in the AI field.

On-chain AI represents the natural evolution of this trend. In the crypto ecosystem, we are already seeing thousands of models deployed daily—either as tokenized assets or embedded within decentralized applications. However, despite this surge in experimentation, there remains a lack of standardization, visibility, and economic alignment for AI models operating in the on-chain world.