# Introduction **Introduction** The age of AI demands a new kind of infrastructure. While the cloud fueled the last era of innovation, its limitations are now clear: centralization, soaring costs, opaque governance, and limited support for the composable, sovereign systems needed by next-generation AI and decentralized applications. Planck is a modular infrastructure stack designed from the ground up for AI and decentralized physical infrastructure (DePIN). It enables the deployment of sovereign AI appchains, spin-up of GPU-powered compute, and composable agent economies on-chain—all while reducing costs by up to 90% compared to traditional hyperscalers. Planck is not a single product. It is a unified infrastructure platform comprising: * **Planck₀**: A modular Layer-0 for launching AI-native L1s and DePIN protocols * **Planck₁**: A sovereign Layer-1 compute chain with embedded GPU utility economy * **GPU Console**: A decentralized bare-metal GPU cloud for enterprise and AI workloads * **AI Studio**: An integrated platform for training, fine-tuning, and deploying open-source foundation models By combining Web3 composability with enterprise-grade GPU infrastructure, Planck is setting the standard for decentralized AI infrastructure. Our platform, powered by Web3 technologies like Planck 0 and 1, is designed to serve a wide range of users, including: * **Consumers:** Empowering individuals to explore and utilize AI in their daily lives. * **Startups:** Providing early-stage companies with the affordable and scalable resources they need to build and launch AI-powered products. * **Enterprises:** Enabling large organizations to optimize their AI development and deployment, reducing costs and increasing efficiency. * **Scientists:** Supporting researchers and scientists with the computational power and tools they need to push the boundaries of AI innovation. Planck's team is a unique blend of experts in AI, Cloud Engineering, and Blockchain, working together from our offices in Bangalore and Dubai. We're committed to building a decentralized, accessible, and powerful AI ecosystem that benefits everyone. This white paper delves into the technical details of our platform, our vision for the future of AI computing, and how you can be a part of it. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://resources.plancknetwork.com/learn-more/white-paper/introduction.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.