According to Techub News, the decentralized open source AI platform OpenGradient has completed a seed round of financing of US$8.5 million. Investors include a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator (a16z CSX), Foresight Ventures, SV Angel, Coinbase Ventures, SALT Fund and Symbolic Capital. Individual investors include former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan, NEAR founder Illia Polosukhin and Polygon founder Sandeep Nailwal. OpenGradient is committed to accelerating the development of open source artificial intelligence, providing scalable on-chain AI computing power, while ensuring the verifiability, attribution and security of AI deployment and hosting.