Today at the R3al World AI Summit during Token2049 Singapore, IoTeX and a coalition of founding Alignment Partners announced the launch of the “Real-World AI Foundry”, a global alliance uniting to define shared standards and principles for building an open ecosystem for Real-World AI.
The Real-World AI Foundry brings together enterprises, researchers, infrastructure providers, and innovators to build intelligence that perceives the world, predicts outcomes, and responds in real time. Unlike models limited to static datasets, Real-World AI is designed to learn cause and effect, adapt to change, and act responsibly in complex environments.
A group of leading enterprises, investors, industry organizations and AI innovators have joined the Foundry as launching Alignment Partners, including Vodafone, Animoca Brands, Digital Chambers, Drone Layer, Recall, Theta Network, Hashkey Chain, Taiko, Novanet, Wingbits, Geodnet, Nubila, Axal, Rovr, Natix, StorX, Minara.ai, AEON, Alchemy Pay, DePINhub, with more partners to be announced.
Principles for Real-World AI
The Foundry is guided by three foundational principles that ensure Real-World AI is built for accuracy, accessibility, and alignment:
- Grounded: Anchored in verified, live data from people, machines, and environments, ensuring reliability and trust at the source.
- Open: Built on open-source and interoperable foundations, enabling anyone to contribute to and benefit from collective innovation.
- Human: Embedded with accountability and aligned with human values, ensuring that Real-World AI acts responsibly as it shapes decisions, industries, and institutions.
Building the First Open Ecosystem of Real-World Models (RWMs)
At the heart of the Foundry is the creation of the world’s first Open Ecosystem of Real-World Models (RWMs) — multi-modal, domain-specific world models that integrate machines, sensors, and human interaction. RWMs are trained on verified, live data streams, making their intelligence trustworthy and adaptable across high-impact industries such as mobility, energy, health, and robotics.
The Foundry aligns diverse contributors under a shared vision, ensuring that RWMs are developed collectively and governed transparently so no single entity controls the ecosystem. Alignment Partners will collaborate on governance, data standards, and deployment frameworks that make Real-World AI scalable, composable, and interoperable across industries.
“AI must evolve from static prediction to dynamic action grounded in reality,” said Raullen Chai, Co-Founder and CEO of IoTeX. “The Real-World AI Foundry brings together the collective strength of enterprises, researchers, AI innovators and infrastructure providers to co-architect an open foundation for intelligence that is live, verifiable, and aligned with human values.”
Why Now: The Missing Bridge Between AI and Reality
AI is moving off screens and into the real world, but today’s models—trained on static, historical data—can predict, yet cannot reliably adapt or act safely in dynamic environments.
Real-World Models (RWMs) change this. By learning from live, verified data at the source, they deliver the accuracy, adaptability, and alignment that mission-critical sectors—autonomous mobility, robotics, energy, and healthcare—demand.
Building RWMs requires collective effort. No single organization has the scale or perspective to do it alone. The Real-World AI Foundry unites data providers, infrastructure operators, model builders, and researchers under shared standards for a coordinated global impact.
Benefits for Alignment Partners
The Foundry is fundamentally collaborative. Alignment Partners are invited to participate in the development process in the ways that best match their strengths, including contributing data, infrastructure, expertise, or adoption pathways.
Together, the Foundry partners will design the frameworks for governance, data quality, and model deployment, ensuring outputs are both verifiable and standardized.
Every contribution remains specialized but interoperable, forming a shared foundation that reduces costs, accelerates innovation, and delivers intelligence that is universally trusted and accessible to all.
Looking Ahead
The Real-World AI Foundry marks the beginning of an unprecedented global collaboration to make Real-World AI a trusted, open, and human-aligned reality. Through shared standards, open ecosystems, and collective governance, the Foundry is laying the groundwork for AI that perceives, reasons, and acts responsibly in sync with the world.
About the Real-World AI Foundry
The Real-World AI Foundry is a global alliance uniting Alignment Partners across industries to build the first open ecosystem of Real-World Models (RWMs). Anchored in live, verified data, the Foundry is dedicated to developing standards, frameworks, and governance for responsible Real-World AI. Its mission is to ensure that intelligence built for the physical world is grounded, open, and aligned with human values.
About IoTeX
IoTeX is the blockchain platform for Real-World AI. Since 2017, its foundational infrastructure has delivered verified, real-time data from the physical world to AI systems and decentralized applications. Powering 100+ projects and 40M devices across mobility, robotics, energy, health, and more, IoTeX enables developers to build next-generation AI applications with real-world impact. Trusted by partners like Google, Samsung, and IEEE, IoTeX provides the data, identity, and verification layers to bridge the physical and digital worlds.
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IoTeX: Ralph Sun, PR Director, ralph@iotex.io