PANews reported on December 17th that OpenLedger, in partnership with the Cambridge Centre for Blockchain Research, has launched a $5 million grant program to advance decentralized AI research. The program will support students and researchers exploring transparent datasets, verifiable training pipelines, attribution-driven reward systems, and dedicated language models built on the OPEN mainnet. OpenLedger stated that this initiative will open a new chapter in decentralized AI innovation and inject strong momentum into the development of related technologies.