{"id":170575,"date":"2025-09-20T22:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170575\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T22:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:31:07","slug":"ai-the-new-tech-stack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170575\/","title":{"rendered":"AI the New Tech Stack"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Internet Computer ICP$4.7448<\/a>, a blockchain project that has sought to differentiate itself from rivals, is doubling down on its pitch as the go-to network for on-chain artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n

This could be the beginning of a new tech stack – one in which AI, not humans, becomes the primary developer of applications, according to Dominic Williams, founder of Internet Computer developer Dfinity.<\/p>\n

Williams argued that while crypto prices remain driven largely by market mechanics – treasury operations, liquidity games and speculation – the underlying technology will eventually force a reckoning in an interview with CoinDesk.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the long run, markets begin to reflect realities on the ground,\u201d he said. \u201cBut as yet you\u2019re not seeing what\u2019s happening with Internet Computer reflected in ICP\u2019s price.\u201d<\/p>\n

Running AI on-Chain<\/p>\n

The Internet Computer first demonstrated neural networks running as smart contracts in April last year, starting with image classification and later facial recognition, Williams said. <\/p>\n

While those were relatively simple models compared to large language models – the kind that power AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini – they were proof of concept: that AI can run natively on a blockchain. No other network has achieved this, Williams pointed out, despite the chatter about \u201cdecentralized AI.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Where others rely on off-chain infrastructure like Amazon Web Services, ICP seeks to integrate the full AI development and execution stack on-chain. Williams describes this as \u201ca self-writing internet\u201d – a system where users describe what they want, and an AI delivers it as a working application, hosted directly on Internet Computer.<\/p>\n

The bigger idea, Williams said, is that AI itself will replace much of today\u2019s developer workflow. Instead of humans writing code, configuring databases and maintaining servers, an AI could spin up applications instantly, update them continuously and ensure resilience through blockchain-based guarantees.<\/p>\n

This reframes the blockchain not just as a settlement layer for tokens, but as the optimal environment for AI-generated applications. ICP\u2019s design, with features like \u201creverse gas\u201d – the model where developers pay for the computational costs of their applications, rather than requiring end users to pay a transaction fee – removes the need for firewalls or database migrations that plague traditional infrastructure. <\/p>\n

\u201cAI is developing these apps hundreds of times faster than humans could,\u201d Williams said. \u201cAnd because there are no system admins standing by, you need the guardrails only blockchain can provide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams pointed to early hackathons where ordinary people used AI on ICP to build apps: from a crowdsourced pothole-mapping platform, to a tool for generating wills and health directives. <\/p>\n

The vision is that such tools could proliferate in the millions. Entrepreneurs, small businesses and even NGOs could create customized apps without technical expertise, paying for usage with fiat while crypto tokens underpin the system behind the scenes.<\/p>\n

Price Action Still Lagging<\/p>\n

Despite these developments, the ICP token<\/a> has yet to see sustained momentum. It briefly rallied when AI integrations were announced last year, but has since traded more in line with broader market sentiment than with user adoption. <\/p>\n

Williams accepts this disconnect but predicts that markets may catch up very soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis could be the first time Web3 actually outcompetes Web2 technologically, without a token incentive in sight,\u201d Williams said. \u201cThe shock will be when people realize they can just talk to an AI, and a blockchain app appears at a URL.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Internet Computer ICP$4.7448, a blockchain project that has sought to differentiate itself from rivals, is doubling down…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,102230,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-170575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-internet-computer","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}