Gaia has launched Gaia AI Phone, the world’s first smartphone designed for complete AI sovereignty. Built on Galaxy S25 Edge hardware and launching initially in Korea and Hong Kong, the device runs sophisticated AI inference—the process of applying trained AI models to generate responses and perform tasks—locally through the company’s proprietary Gaia AI Platform. Each phone operates as a full Gaia network node, contributing computational resources to the decentralized AI infrastructure while earning token rewards for providing inference capacity to other network participants. The Gaia AI Phone launches with an ecosystem of exclusive partner integrations, including EdenLayer’s AI gaming platform, Roam’s global eSIM data package and Umy’s crypto-native travel booking discounts. Phone owners also receive token airdrops from partner projects, representing immediate participation in the decentralized AI economy. The underlying technology represents a significant engineering achievement, compressing language model capabilities that previously required data center infrastructure to run efficiently on smartphone hardware with full network participation capabilities. The device addresses growing concerns about AI centralization and data sovereignty in the blockchain community. While traditional AI systems extract value from user data for centralized entities, Gaia’s model distributes both processing power and economic benefits among network participants, creating a truly decentralized alternative to centralized AI monopolies. The Gaia AI Phone represents a controlled technology demonstration designed to validate decentralized AI architecture on consumer hardware.