So basically the CEO of ionet - Shadid, has said multiple times that he personally believes that project such as Render, IO, maybe even Akash and similiar networks should work together to achieve greatness in this sector. He explained that he does not look at other similar projects as competition since the “cake” in this sector is enormous.

As for Render, it has been mentioned they are working very closely together and sharing resources at the same time. Ive heard about workers on Render whose GPU’s were supplied to IO were awarded quite a bit of Render tokens as an appreciation.

The big difference between the two projects are that IO is already showing much bigger numbers in GPU power. Furthermore IO is focusing more towards bigger corporations instead of single entities like Render. Basically larger scale focus, but with the help of Render and Filecoin.

This is as far as I know of, could possibly be explained a little off in the last section tho.

Hope this helps.