**News Flash: ASI Alliance Eyes Cudos Merger to Boost AI Power**

The Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) Alliance is looking to expand its computing power by potentially merging with cloud computing and blockchain platform Cudos. Voting on this merger, which began on September 19 and ends on September 24, allows the community to decide on integrating Cudos' native token, CUDOS, into the alliance.

Key members of the ASI Alliance, including SingularityNET, Ocean Protocol, and Fetch.ai, believe this move could add $200 million in computing hardware. Despite this, the alliance still trails behind giants like OpenAI, which uses around $1 billion in computing power for its GPT-4 model.

SingularityNET CEO Ben Goertzel remains optimistic, highlighting Cudos' NuNet as a solution to scale computing power by leveraging devices globally. He believes decentralized AI initiatives can outperform Big Tech, offering smarter solutions through collective innovation.