# Model Developers

Model developers can be mainly divided into three categories: AI researchers from large enterprises, master's and doctoral students from university laboratories, and individual researchers. For these developers, not only do we need to lower technical barriers, but we also need to address the economic pressures during the training process. Especially for university laboratory students and individual researchers, computing resources are often very scarce, and the enormous economic burden frequently hinders their initial research. The joint mining mechanism essentially provides model developers with more opportunities for trial and error. Researchers can build their designed models at lower costs without waiting for lengthy GPU queues. This is exactly the change we hope to bring in order to benefit the whole research community, as one interviewee argued that they deeply experienced the scarcity of GPU resources at their university, even though the university was the top-notch and was very supportive of research, resources were still limited. In return, we expect model designers to share some long-term benefits with computing power investors to thank them for their initial support and trust.
