Open Inference Needs More Than Open Weights

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/open-inference-needs-more-than-open-weights. Sovereign Inference is an open protocol for routing paid AI inference across providers, verifying receipts, and serving models from local hardware. Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3. You can also check exclusive content about #decentralize-ai, #decentralize-ai-hackathon, #ai-inference, #ai-infrastructure, #developer-tools, #cryptography, #open-soure-ai, #open-inference, and more. This story was written by: @joshua.s.warren_347qafng. Learn more about this writer by checking @joshua.s.warren_347qafng's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Sovereign Inference combines SIP-AI, a provider-neutral protocol for paid and verifiable AI inference, with SIN, a node that recommends and serves models on local hardware. The open-source project includes signed receipts, provider routing, failover, payments, and an OpenAI-compatible proxy, while publicly documenting its bugs, limitations, and integrations that still require live testing.