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What is Theta?

Theta launched in 2019 as a decentralized content delivery network (CDN) for video, but the company has evolved considerably since then. Today Theta Labs builds Theta EdgeCloud, decentralized physical infrastructure...

Theta Labs · 8 Jul 2026 · 15 min read

Theta Labs Launches AI Gaming Services and AI Characters

We are proud to announce today that Theta Labs is launching its AI gaming services vertical, and AI Characters is the first product built for it. Why gaming, why now...

Theta Labs · 2 Jul 2026 · 4 min read

News

ZAN, Ant Digital Technologies’ Web3 Brand, Joins Theta Network as Strategic Enterprise Validator

We are excited to announce that ZAN (Powered by Ant Digital Technologies) is joining the Theta ecosystem as a strategic Enterprise Validator Node operator. With this partnership, ZAN joins Theta’...

Theta Labs · 25 Jun 2026 · 2 min read

Why EdgeCloud Drives TFUEL and THETA Value

Theta EdgeCloud is our GPU compute network, connecting traditional data centre hardware with thousands of community operated nodes around the world. It gives developers, enterprises and research teams access to...

Theta Labs · 23 Jun 2026 · 6 min read

The Future of Academic AI Research is on Theta EdgeCloud

One of our core missions at Theta Labs has been to democratize access to AI compute. Academic research labs are doing some of the most important & interesting work in...

Theta Labs · 10 Jun 2026 · 4 min read

Theta EdgeCloud Powers Human-Centered AI Research at Soongsil University’s HUMANE Lab

We are proud to welcome the HUMANE Lab (Human-centered Language and Data Intelligence Lab) at Soongsil University to its growing network of academic research partners. Led by Professor Kunwoo...

Theta Labs · 4 Jun 2026 · 2 min read

Theta Roundup — May 2026

May was a month of steady building across the platform, with new academic partners in the UK and the Middle East, meaningful improvements to how AI agents and large models...

Theta Labs · 2 Jun 2026 · 3 min read

Scaling Arabic NLP Research at Cairo University with Theta EdgeCloud

This is the first in a series of case studies looking at how academic and enterprise teams are using Theta EdgeCloud in their work. Each piece will showcase a single...

Theta Labs · 29 May 2026 · 3 min read

Theta Labs and XYO Launch Independent Verification Layer for AI Agents on EdgeCloud

XYO's cryptographic Proof of Origin technology will independently verify the infrastructure behind Theta's live AI agent deployments for the Houston Rockets, Olympique de Marseille and other...

Theta Labs · 28 May 2026 · 2 min read

Theta EdgeCloud Tests Prefill/Decode Disaggregation for Large-Scale LLM Serving

The Theta EdgeCloud team has completed a benchmark testing a more efficient way to serve large language models in production. LLM inference involves two phases of work, namely prefill and...

Theta Labs · 19 May 2026 · 3 min read

Compute Is Becoming a Commodity. What Happens Next?

Something quite interesting happened in the compute space earlier this month. Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, said compute may become a tradable financial asset, with futures contracts emerging as demand...

Theta Labs · 18 May 2026 · 3 min read

City St George’s, University of London Joins Theta EdgeCloud’s Academic Network

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Ferheen Ayaz, Lecturer in Computer Science at City St George’s, University of London and member of its Centre for Software Reliability, is...

Theta Labs · 12 May 2026 · 2 min read

Yonsei University’s Breakthrough AI Research — Powered by AWS Trainium on Theta EdgeCloud

Two landmark papers on personalized AI reward modeling, trained on AWS Trainium instances via Theta EdgeCloud Hybrid, mark a new era for decentralized AI infrastructure in academic research. We are...

Theta Labs · 8 May 2026 · 5 min read

PageIndex Now Makes Theta EdgeCloud AI Agents Significantly Smarter

When a fan asks an AI agent a question, the quality of the answer depends almost entirely on what the agent retrieves from its knowledge base. The model powering the...

Theta Labs · 5 May 2026 · 3 min read

What Is a Neocloud?

A neocloud is a cloud computing provider that specializes in renting out graphics processing unit (GPU) compute for artificial intelligence (AI) training and inference, rather than offering the broad range...

Theta Labs · 5 May 2026 · 3 min read

Theta Roundup — April 2026

April was one of our most exciting and productive months in recent memory, with new product capabilities, expanded distribution for our rentable GPUs, a growing academic network, and a significant...

Theta Labs · 4 May 2026 · 2 min read

Illinois Institute of Technology Joins Theta EdgeCloud’s Academic Network

Professor Yong Zheng’s lab at Illinois Institute of Technology is now using Theta EdgeCloud to support research in personalization, recommender systems, and human-centric AI. Illinois Tech becomes the...

Theta Labs · 28 Apr 2026 · 2 min read

Finding GPUs Shouldn’t Be This Hard

As of today, Theta EdgeCloud’s services and network of GPUs is now live on GPUFinder.dev alongside GetDeploying.com and GPUs.io, with more on the way. On its...

Theta Labs · 22 Apr 2026 · 2 min read