Tether's CEO Announces Decentralized AI Solution Utilizing Bitcoin and USDT

Paolo Ardoino, the CEO of the company behind the world’s largest stablecoin, announced on May 5 that his firm will soon launch an open-source AI runtime solution.

He reaffirmed Tether’s ambitions to become a global name in the growing artificial intelligence industry.

His tweet reads that the upcoming solution will not need API keys as it won’t have a central point of failure. It will be a “fully open-source AI runtime, capable to adapt and evolve on any hardware and device.”

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— Paolo Ardoino (@paoloardoino) May 5, 2025

It will also integrate Tether’s Wallet Development Kit (WDK) to support payments using the company’s native and largest stablecoin (USDT) as well as Bitcoin (BTC).

In a separate post, Ardoino explained that Tether AI will have only one goal – to be the ideal technological foundation to achieve the vision of AI described in Isaac Asimov’s science fiction books. He believes the technology will become a “part of the very fabric of the universe” in the following decades.

As such, Tether is developing its own version, which will be “open-source, transparent, scalable, and able to adapt and evolve on any device regardless of the hardware” behind it.

The company has already made a few AI-related moves in the past year or so, including unveiling another platform called Tether Data.

It has also become a major player in the Bitcoin landscape. Not only does it continue to accumulate BTC frequently, but it has also gone deeper into the mining industry.