OG Labs
Founded 2023 · 116 employees on LinkedIn · 21 known investors
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0G (Zero Gravity) is a blockchain infrastructure stack for AI applications, combining an EVM-compatible Layer 1 chain, a distributed storage network, a compute network, and a scalable data availability layer. It targets developers building data-intensive AI workloads onchain, such as AI inference, model training, and data retrieval.
Also known as 0G · 0G Labs · ØG · Zero Gravity
Founders & leadership
OG Labs was founded in 2023 by Ming Wu and Michael Heinrich.

Investors · 21
Company profile
researched Aug 20260G Labs operates 0G (also styled ØG), a decentralized infrastructure platform positioned as a trust layer for artificial intelligence. Its stated core capabilities are verifiable compute, sealed private inference and decentralized storage, intended for AI agents, developers, enterprises, researchers, consumers, AI applications, robotics, AI startups, AI data providers, AI marketplaces, machine economies and governments.
The platform is organized as a modular stack. An "AI Private Cloud" layer covers decentralized infrastructure for throughput and security, workload execution through APIs, and developer experience tooling including SDKs and quick-start flows. An "Agentic Alignment" layer covers open and expert AI models, trust-and-safety mechanisms such as reputation, attestations and verifiable inference, agent harnesses providing frameworks, skills and persistent memory, and financial primitives for machine-to-machine activity including payments, stablecoins and agent wallets. An applications layer spans autonomous agents, ecosystem products such as launchpads and trading plus the 0G App suite, network operations, and physical AI covering robots, drones and humanoids.
Shipped products listed by the company include the ØG App, Private Computer and Chain Hub, alongside models 0GM-1.0-35B-A3B, GLM-5, GLM-5.1 and GLM-5.2. The company also publishes research, in several cases co-authored with academic and corporate labs including the National University of Singapore, Peking University, BUPT, Nanyang Technological University, Microsoft Research, Chongqing University and Renmin University of China, on topics such as decentralized large-scale training (DiLoCoX), consensus-protocol bug detection with LLM agents, deep learning job deadlock detection, distributed data-parallel computation optimization, operating-system agents and visual reasoning.
Traction
Company-reported network figures include 309.19 billion total private AI tokens consumed, 29.1 million total transactions, 42.9 million blocks produced, 5.5 million total accounts, 2 AI models built and more than 250 ecosystem partners. The company maintains a builder community with public X and Discord channels and publishes research papers with academic and industry collaborators dated from 2024 through 2026.
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Market position
0G positions itself as a trust layer for AI and describes hosting a large ecosystem of decentralized AI applications, citing more than 250 ecosystem partners. Named partners include Alibaba Cloud, Socrates AI (AI agent launchpad), Eliza OS (agent framework), Ora (AI oracle), Bagel (monetized AI finetuning), Carv (AI gaming L2 on SVM) and Blockdaemon (institutional staking services).
Technology
The stack combines decentralized infrastructure described as offering near-infinite throughput, execution services exposed through APIs, and developer tooling such as SDKs. Distinct components address verifiable compute, sealed private inference and decentralized storage. Company messaging emphasizes scalability without performance limits, AI running fully onchain for transparency and verifiability, and composability so developers can build and connect AI-driven Web3 applications. Additional technology areas include agent harnesses with persistent memory, attestation and reputation systems for verifiable inference, first-party and third-party AI models (0GM-1.0-35B-A3B, GLM-5 series), and research output on low-communication decentralized cluster training.
Go-to-market
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AI agents and agent developers, application developers, enterprises, researchers, consumers, AI startups, AI data providers, AI marketplaces, robotics and physical AI operators, AI infrastructure providers, and governments.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does OG Labs do?
- 0G Labs builds a decentralized AI infrastructure stack offering verifiable compute, private inference and decentralized storage.
- Who founded OG Labs?
- OG Labs was founded by Ming Wu, Michael Heinrich in 2023.
- Who are OG Labs's investors?
- OG Labs's investors include Abstract Ventures, AlphaLab Capital, Animoca Brands, BaseTwo, Blockchain Builders, Caladan, Delta Blockchain, Eterna Capital and 13 more.



