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Advait Jayant

CSO at OpenGradient. Previously founded SuperSight / Peri Labs.

I write research and make films about AI infrastructure, compute markets, and crypto rails.

Early research

Before OpenGradient, I wrote two public reports: one on edge AI, one on AI x DeFi, plus a solo paper on NFT wash trading.

2023

Solo paper · SSRNMarket structure

The Economics of Wash Trading

Solo-authored SSRN paper on NFT wash trading: token incentives, fake volume, and whether any of it translated into real trading.

Cited by

Journal of Banking & Finance ↗European Journal of Finance ↗NBER ↗Scholar citations ↗

2024
Prediction 0114 Oct 2024The State of Edge AI
Cloud-only AI was going to hit latency, privacy, and bandwidth walls. Useful intelligence would move closer to the user.
What happened · 9 Jun 2025
Apple opened its on-device foundation model to developers, turning local private AI into a platform feature instead of a demo.
Apple models ↗
2025
Prediction 0228 Feb 2025The AiFi Thesis
AI compute would stop being just another cloud line item. Capacity itself would become something capital markets finance directly.
What happened · 24 Sep 2025 / 10 Apr 2026
Oracle moved to raise $18B of debt for AI cloud infrastructure. Blackstone later filed a public vehicle for newly built data centers.
Oracle debt ↗Blackstone BXDC ↗
2025
Prediction 0328 Feb 2025The AiFi Thesis
If agents were going to work with each other, they would need payment rails, spend controls, and a clean record of what happened.
What happened · 7 May 2026
AWS launched AgentCore Payments with Coinbase and Stripe, so agents can pay for APIs, MCP servers, web content, and other agents.
AWS launch ↗

Track record

2026

Product

Early customers, enterprise sales

Helped take an AI infra product from zero to 7-figure revenue.

2026

Market entry

Local partners, community, events

Ran a Korea launch week with 1,000+ attendees.

2025

Marketing

Brand, films, launches

Within a year of running marketing at OpenGradient, we crossed 50M+ views.

2024

Research

First author, market synthesis, technical writing

Published The State of Edge AI with 174K+ launch impressions and 6 citations.

2022

Company

Founder, product, NL-to-SQL

Built SuperSight / Peri Labs to 200K+ users and 30+ enterprise pilots.

Experience

2025 — Now

OpenGradient

— Chief Strategy Officer

I lead product strategy, customer work, and partnerships. $9.5M seed led by a16z crypto.

2022 — 2025

Founded SuperSight (later Peri Labs). Raised $1.5M pre-seed at $30M from Animoca Brands, Blockchain Founders Fund, and Vayner Fund. Selected through the NEAR Incubator for the Delphi Labs AI Accelerator, plus UT Austin’s incubator. IP acquired.

2019 — 2022

Technics Publications

— Technical Author

Wrote 50+ technical pieces on AI: neural networks, NLP, transfer learning, and big-data infrastructure. Featured in O’Reilly Safari Books Online. 15K+ readers.