VIDEO - Jonathan Schemoul (Aleph.im): "Without decentralisation, AI will be a dystopia".

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Launched in 2019, the French Aleph project has established itself as one of the main proposals for decentralising the development of artificial intelligence.

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This week, The Big Whale devotes its "season" to AI and DePIN 👀 (Decentralised Physical infrastructure), a trend that aims to decentralise traditional infrastructures using blockchain.

For the occasion, we spoke to Jonathan Schemoul, CEO and founder of Aleph, a French project that aims to create a decentralised infrastructure that aims to decentralise data storage and computing power. "DePIN is the opportunity to decentralise AI to avoid leaving it solely in the hands of the tech giants", he explains.

Recently, the company also launched LibertAI, an artificial intelligence application built on top of the Aleph network that aims to allow its users to use AI with the associated confidentiality.

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Louis Tellier is Lead Institutional Research at Blockstories, where he focuses on developing the institutional offering for digital assets. He joined Blockstories in April 2025. Blockstories was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Berlin, with presence in France and Switzerland.

Prior to joining Blockstories, Tellier worked as a crypto journalist at The Big Whale from August 2023 to January 2025, covering crypto and blockchain topics. Before that, he was a journalist at L'AGEFI from May 2022 to July 2023, specialising in cryptocurrencies. Earlier in his career, he worked as a web and video journalist at BFM Business and as a video journalist at Le Figaro. He also taught journalism at IICP in Paris for three and a half years, with a focus on web video journalism. Tellier is a graduate of Sciences Po Grenoble and the University of Lille.

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VIDEO - Jonathan Schemoul (Aleph.im): "Without decentralisation, AI will be a dystopia".

Launched in 2019, the French Aleph project has established itself as one of the main proposals for decentralising the development of artificial intelligence.

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