Road to Mainnet
Over the past two years, we’ve been building the foundation for what is now the 375aiTM network. From becoming one of the largest deployers of Helium 5G radios to launching our proprietary mobile app and custom edge AI hardware, the 375ai team has made bold strides toward our vision of making sense of the physical world in real time.
Last year, we launched the 375goTM Discovery Testnet. Today, we’re excited to announce its completion, and the beginning of our road to Mainnet.
How It Started
375ai was founded by a team with 2 decades deep experience in data analytics, telecommunications, and mobile advertising. Co-Founders Harry Dewhirst and Rob Atherton first met as executives at Linksys, the iconic wireless networking company almost anyone over the age of 30 recognizes, even immortalized in its own South Park episode. While at Linksys, they were introduced to Helium and quickly recognized the vast, untapped potential of DePIN technology.
After leaving Linksys, Harry and Rob partnered with 375ai Co-Founder Trevor Branon to deploy Helium at scale. By 2023, they had become one of the largest deployers of Helium and other DePIN equipment. Through that work, the team saw a bigger opportunity to combine their expertise in data, telecom, and edge infrastructure to solve a critical challenge.
They realized that as smart cities and AI rapidly evolve, there’s a significant absence of real-world, real-time data to power that growth. 375ai was created to address that gap.
Why Physical AI?
As AI progresses beyond static prompts and image recognition, the next frontier is the physical world. This evolution, what Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calls the beginning of the “agentic AI era”, demands systems that not only perceive their environment but interact with it in real time. That means understanding friction, velocity, unpredictability, and human behavior. In other words, reality itself becomes the new training ground.
At CES 2025, Huang explained that future AI will rely on “world models”, simulations that help machines plan, predict, and adapt to the dynamics of real world environments. But for these models to work, they need fuel: vast amounts of high quality, real world data. That’s where 375ai comes in.
Most data used to train AI today is historical or simulated. But the physical world is constantly changing, cities grow, traffic patterns shift, behaviors evolve. 375ai builds the infrastructure to capture this kind of real time, real world data at the edge, through devices on streets, vehicles, and in public spaces. It’s data that cloud AI can’t reach on its own, and it’s essential for training the next generation of autonomous systems, ones that don’t just analyze the world, but understand and navigate it.
375go Discovery Testnet
The 375go app is a gateway to the growing ecosystem of 375ai products. It enables users to contribute meaningful data to the 375ai network, manage their 375edgeTM devices and soon manage smaller form factor hardware devices like 375street.
With the launch of the Discovery Testnet last year, we took a critical step towards realizing our vision. The purpose of the testnet was to optimize the 375go app user experience, improve 375edge device functionality, and refine our data collection processes. The Discovery Testnet had participation from 200,000 nodes in over 170 countries around the world.
Road to Mainnet
The Discovery Testnet is nearing its end and we’re excited to reward testnet participants with an airdrop of the 375ai network’s native Edge AI Token ($EAT). The snapshot for our airdrop will be taken in the next two months, followed closely by Mainnet launch.
The transition from Testnet to Mainnet will mark a significant milestone: users will officially start earning $EAT tokens by contributing real-time data to the network. At launch, with 200,000 active 375go enabled devices and strategically deployed 375edge nodes in major U.S. cities, the 375ai network will achieve unprecedented visibility into the movements and behaviors of millions of people every day.
As we accelerate towards Mainet in the coming months, stay tuned for more information around launch, the $EAT token and opportunities to engage deeply with the 375ai community.
Ready to get involved or learn more? Download our app today on IOS or Android, and join our Discord. Your support is crucial, and we couldn’t be more grateful to have you on this journey with us.