Karan Sirdesai | Co-Founder & CEO of Mira Network — Building Reliable AI on the Blockchain

In this episode of Blocklayer Podcast, Kenzi Takahashi speaks with Karan Sirdesai, Co-Founder and CEO of Mira Network — a decentralized AI infrastructure platform taking aim at one of the biggest blockers to real adoption: hallucinations and reliability.Karan explains how Mira approaches “trustworthy AI” for high-stakes use cases like finance and healthcare — where being mostly right isn’t good enough. We dig into the core idea behind Mira’s architecture: using multiple models and consensus-based verification to catch errors, reduce hallucinations, and make outputs more auditable and dependable.He also shares his non-linear founder journey — from hustling in university and working with Balaji Srinivasan, to building Mira alongside deep AI and crypto operators. You’ll hear the team’s “aha” moment: hands-on experimentation with GPU rentals and AI pipelines that revealed where reliability breaks — and how those learnings led to a breakthrough approach that could make AI systems safer by default.This episode was supported by Diksha Desai and Sachi Shiokava.