Antseed Raises $2.4M From Spark Capital to Build an Open Market for AI Inference

The market for AI inference is growing rapidly as companies shift from building and training models to running them continuously in customer-facing and operational systems. Gartner predicts that worldwide spending on AI-optimized cloud infrastructure will reach $42.3 billion in 2026, with inference accounting for 55% of that total.

Antseed, an open peer-to-peer market for AI inference, has raised $2.4 million in a token round led by Spark Capital to tap into this shift. The increasing concentration of enterprise demand for frontier models has created a gap in the market for price comparison, and Antseed aims to address this by allowing developers to buy model calls from any independent provider offering the best combination of price, speed, and privacy.

The unique aspect of Antseed's model is that it eliminates the need for a central platform, with requests traveling peer-to-peer and payment settling directly to the provider's wallet in USDC on Base. Early traction on the network shows that leading models are available at up to 97% below their official prices, with a median discount of 54% across 1,093 live peer and model listings.