1.1 Project Introduction

Cottonia is a distributed cloud acceleration infrastructure system designed for the AI-native computing ecosystem, aimed at providing scalable, trusted, and high-performance computing power for large-scale AI applications, intelligent agents (AI Agents), and AI services. It is not only a cloud-based resource scheduling system but also an integrated infrastructure protocol that combines a compute marketplace, AI resource orchestration, and optimization layers.

Cottonia adopts a modular architecture that decouples the compute layer, scheduling layer, and settlement layer, allowing AI models and computational workloads of different scales to access the required resources with minimal latency and optimal cost efficiency. The system supports multiple AI workloads, including model training, inference services, AI code generation, and testing environment execution. To address the high token consumption commonly seen in AI applications (especially in AI coding and long-context reasoning), Cottonia introduces intelligent routing and dynamic resource allocation mechanisms, optimizing the performance-to-cost ratio from the computing layer to the API billing layer and providing fundamental support for the sustainable operation of the AI industry.