According to ChainCatcher, the decentralized AI-as-a-service cloud project Heurist has completed a $2 million Pre-Seed round of financing, with participation from Amber Group, Contango Digital Assets, Manifold, Selini Capital, Sharding Capital, X Ventures, Zephyrus Capital, Mozaik Capital, Steroids Capital and other institutions as well as multiple angel investors.

According to RootData, Heurist is a Layer2 network for AI model hosting and reasoning based on ZK Stack. It provides serverless access to open source AI models hosted by a decentralized network of computing resources. Its vision is to use blockchain to democratize AI, ensuring accessibility and fair innovation.