# Key Benefits of the Partnership

* Creates the largest open-source, decentralized player in AI research and development.
* The deal provides an unprecedented opportunity for the three influential, decentralized leaders to create a powerful, compelling alternative to Big Tech’s control over AI development, use and monetization. 
* The fusion of SingularityNET and Fetch.ai’s research, brands, technologies and products creates a foundation to build an unprecedentedly scalable decentralized AI infrastructure, ensuring ethical and trustworthy practices.
* The token merger facilitates the combination of thought-leaders in the research and development of AGI (Humayun Sheikh and Dr. Ben Goertzel), advancing the path to development of the technology on the blockchain.
* Sheikh and Goertzel have long been acolytes and early-adopters of Artificial Intelligence. This Alliance facilitates the commercialization of each company’s technology, granting universal access to cutting-edge AI platforms and large databases. 
* This groundbreaking move advances the path to AGI’s development on the blockchain.