Network operators are a special type of AI service provider which provide AI services and algorithms needed for the operation of the NuNet platform itself. In the beginning, NuNet will be the sole network operator and develop core network operating services and populate the platform with basic network operations agents. In the medium and long term, however, the ability to offer network operating services will be opened to third-party developers. The long-term goal of NuNet is to outsource the development of network services completely and concentrate solely on the development of API of APIs and the governance of the platform.

Demands: Earn return from AI services and algorithms making NuNet platform more efficient;

Capabilities: Ability to develop services needed by other users of the platform.

NuNet offer: Allow consumers directly, or AI algorithms automatically, to discover, use and pay for computing resources and data on the NuNet platform, via task description, process validation, and other APIs;

NuNet requirements: Network operating agents developed by third parties will have to be in strict compliance with the ethical rules and in line with the spirit and vision of the platform.

Entities: NuNet, open-source software developers, software SMEs;

Since network operations agents will be a special kind of AI Services, NuNet will not build separate SDKs for building such agents, but rather will use the ones of technical partners. In beginning, therefore, network operations agents will be built using SingularityNET’s SDK and will constitute SingularityNET’s AI services (which also could be made available on SigularityNET’s marketplace).

Consumers are individuals and organizations which demand machine intelligence, computing resources and data from NuNet platform and consume the results of business logic executed on the platform. Demands of consumers will be ingested into the platform via task description API. Results of completed tasks will be delivered to consumers via process validation and result description APIs. Payment gateways and aggregators will be used for the financial aspect of the interaction between consumers, providers and operators.

Demands: Business needs for AI services, data science workflows or general computing processes; data and computing resources for executing them;

Capabilities: Ability to define tasks to be carried by NuNet platform and receive and interpret their results. However, the majority of consumers of NuNet platform will most probably access the platform through integration with technical and business partners.

NuNet offer: Allow consumers directly, or AI algorithms automatically, to discover, use and pay for computing resources and data on NuNet platform, via task description, process validation and other APIs;

NuNet requirements: The only requirement by NuNet that will be the ethical usage of the platform; Ethical rules will be initially proposed by NuNet but later shaped by the community and sub-communities within the platform. By default, anybody will be able to access the decentralized platform in a generally unrestricted way and the best spirit of decentralized Web3 technologies. The universal monitoring and enforcement of the ethical rules will be governed by the community following NuNet governance structure and enabled via verification and validation functionality of the platform15.

Potential users: Individuals and organizations having complex computing and AI related tasks and business needs but lacking resources and knowledge to implement and run them using traditional means;

The purpose of NuNet organization is to provide a legal basis for the NuNet platform, and resources for the core team. The business goals of the NuNet organization are sustainability and growth of the ecosystem in the long term.

Core components of NuNet platform will be released under the most permissive open source licenses (MIT, Apache, or GPL - type) and will not be protected by IP rights. Nevertheless, users will be able to design and enable their IP-protected independent business models via NuNet platform by leveraging and combining the roles of compute-providers, data-providers, ΑΙ-service-providers providers and network operators.

AI service providers are individual developers and organizations which register their services (AI, data science or ML workflows) to NuNet platform for enabling them to be executed on devices provided by compute providers, use data provided by data providers and discovered and used by NuNet platform consumers.

Demands: Maximize the usage of and returns on existing knowledge expressed in terms of AI algorithms, data science workflows, ML algorithms and general computing processes;

NuNet offer: Increased usage of and return on AI services by exposing them to larger customer base via NuNet platform;

NuNet requirements: NuNet will enforce ethical rules for AI services operating on the platform. AI service providers will have to provide metadata of their services to be used for discovering and matching them with requests of consumers (with the help of service ingestion, workflow aggregation and resource discovery APIs). Note, that most of the AI services may be provided not directly to NuNet platform but through the integrated platforms of the technical partners.

Potential users: AI developers, data scientists, open source software contributors and developers, software SMEs, decentralized computing frameworks and public / private computing clouds;

NuNet are partners with SingularityNET. AI services of global AI network built by SingularityNET will be the first AI service providers on NuNet platform.

From the business model perspective, NuNet is a multi-sided platform enabling direct interactions between different stakeholder groups (see Figure 1 and Figure 3). In order for the platform to operate so that it could advance NuNet's vision, it will have to satisfy the interests, demands, and capabilities of each stakeholder. NuNet platform will provide value-added for each stakeholder group so that they would be incentivized (directly or indirectly) to use NuNet platform versus other offerings in the market for advancing common as well as individual goals. Main NuNet stakeholders/constituents are:

• Compute Providers

• Data Providers

• AI Service Providers

• Consumers

• Network Operators

• Technical Partners

• Platform Developers

• NuNet Organization

Data providers are individuals and organizations who register their data sources to NuNet platform and enable them to be discovered and used by other platform users.

Capabilities: Ownership or control of data that could be useful if shared; Note, that data could be static (a database on a permanent server), dynamic (a constantly changing data in a distributed network) or streaming (sensor readings from IoT devices or mobile phones).

Demands: Optimize the usage of data (e.g. sell data on an ultra-granular level, share data with partners, industry or larger community);

NuNet offer: Allow data providers to offer their data to other NuNet platform users subject to highly granular and custom criteria via data description and data ingestion APIs;

NuNet requirements: Data providers will have to provide the metadata for their data; NuNet will install NuNet adapter at each endpoint of the data provider for enabling and monitoring the appropriate usage;

Potential users: Individuals and organizations having useful but underutilized (due to privacy, security or commercial considerations) data sources;

Platform developers are individuals which commit actual code comprising the platform code-base.

Core developers will comprise a small highly skillful permanent team financed by NuNet organization. The core development team will be responsible for guiding and coordinating the technical development of the platform and will participate in the governance principles;

Open-source developers and contributors. NuNet platform development will be managed by the best practices of open-source software development, attracting developers contributing to the NuNet platform code-base in the spirit of OSS. Some open-source contributors may eventually become part of the core developer team which will be actively encouraged.

Core developers will be paid employees, but open source developers can be attracted and retained only by maintaining high quality, technically attractive, and hackable codebase useful for diverse applications. The core development team will make sure that the NuNet platform codebase will be developed in this spirit from day one.

Compute providers are individuals and organizations which register their computing capacities to NuNet platform and enable them to be discovered and used by other platform users.

Capabilities: Latent computing resources of owned devices;

Demands: Optimize usage of existing computing resources. The optimization criteria can differ for each provider – it could be e.g. earning additional income for underutilized computing capacities, donating existing capacities to chosen socially beneficent projects, enabling new internal or external business processes, etc.;

NuNet offer: Allow compute providers to offer a chosen amount of latent computing power to other users via NuNet platform subject to custom criteria, using resource description and discovery APIs;

NuNet requirements: Providers will have to describe their devices and user preferences; NuNet will install a NuNet adaptor on each sourced device which will enable the telemetry API;

Potential users: Individuals and organizations having latent underutilized computing power and wishing to donate it for socially beneficial causes or for crypto-income as well as in need for innovative business processes;

NuNet aims to integrate the widest possible variety of computing frameworks and AI networks. Integration of current and future decentralized computing and storage frameworks, such as Golem, ANKR, Iagon, Enigma, iExec, SOMN, DFinity, Storj or Filecoin, and others will be strongly considered, but NuNet will also be very open to integrate traditional public cloud infrastructures as well, in order to fully cover consumer computing needs. The majority of these frameworks have open APIs and are open-source software themselves, therefore their integration may not need partnership on the development level. However, some frameworks will be deeply integrated into the core of NuNet and a deeper technical partnership with them will be required and possibly backed by tokenomic integration via ERC-1155 type multi-tokens and cross-blockchain integrators, like Polkadot. Currently, such a framework is SingularityNET. NuNet is also engaged in collaboration with Ocean Protocol and is planning to engage in partnerships with other DAIA members.

Technical partner’s interests: Increase adoption and usage of the respective technology and framework;

NuNet offer: Increase the exposure of the partner’s technology and framework to a larger number of potential customers;

NuNet’s interests: Maximize computing transactions on the platform and maintain steady growth; minimize business risks by not relying on a single computing platform or technical partner;

NuNet will establish an open ecosystem of competitive cooperation between integrated frameworks – a marketplace of marketplaces. Due to its openness, such cooperation would self-organize towards the best technologies and services, as valued by actual business requirements and consumers.