The startup closed a $40 million seed round and secured another $250 million in liquid funds for its blockchain-based decentralized AI infrastructure.
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Traverse founder Amos Thomas believes stories are the foundation of everything, and that humanity must do everything in its power to protect them.
The NEAR.AI Assistant was launched at the Redacted conference in Bangkok over the weekend, along with a plan to build the world’s largest open-source AI model.
Edward Snowden highlighted the importance of decentralization, sharing concerns about AI-driven surveillance and the influence of venture capitalists on blockchain.
The 1.4 trillion parameter model would be 3.5 times bigger than Meta’s current open-source Llama model.
Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin proposes “info finance” as a pioneering framework to harness blockchain and AI for factual insights.
Donald Trump’s Nov. 5 win in the United States presidential election sets the stage for more institutional cryptocurrency adoption, according to a Benchmark research note.
A New York federal judge dismissed a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI over its use of news articles for training ChatGPT, but plaintiffs hint at a potential revised filing.
Anthropic’s AI model will be integrated into one of Palantir’s data systems, which is authorized to contain “secrets” critical to US national security.
United States lawmakers believe Building energy infrastructure for Bitcoin mining, AI, and high-performance computing is a major priority.