Service Providers (SPs)

SP are individuals, projects, or companies that offer AI services, including middleware services, data sets, libraries, computation, and storage solutions. They might provide a single services or complete orchestration pipelines. SPs typically operate on a pay-as-you-go or subscription basis.

A SP may choose to run their own AI services, for example provide inference on their own model. But they can also choose to act as intermediaries for third-party APIs (such as OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.). SPs are also responsible for running the Griffin AI software and operating a Full Node.