Original Author: Filecoin Network
Recently, Fast Company included Filecoin Network in its fourth annual list of the next big events in the tech sector, focusing on honoring emerging technologies that have a profound impact on industries such as education, sustainability, robotics, and AI.
This year, 138 technologies developed by well-known companies, startups, or research teams were selected for their potential to revolutionize the lives of consumers, businesses, and the public. Filecoin, as an integral part of internet infrastructure, continues to empower decentralized AI, earning recognition.
How Filecoin is Shaping the Future of AI
As the AI industry rapidly evolves, the latest (State of AI Report) shows that the AI industry is now valued at $9 trillion, while Filecoin's decentralized storage network provides an open-source alternative for data storage.
Decentralization and Resilience: The integrity of AI depends on the transparency of its development and data usage, making decentralization crucial for a more resilient and trustworthy digital future. However, today's internet landscape is dominated by centralization, with a few companies controlling most of the global cloud data. This concentration of power makes the network vulnerable, exposing information to single points of failure (such as outages, power failures, and downtime). Today, as major developers increasingly lock down their code and data, AI faces similar risks. Filecoin offers a compelling alternative to these centralized models by enabling decentralized and transparent data storage while enhancing trust and reinforcing the resilience of digital infrastructure.
Immutability and Provenance: The accuracy and credibility of AI models are rooted in the integrity of the data they are based on. To create a secure, transparent, and trustworthy environment for the development of AI, it is essential to consider the source, storage methods and locations of this vast data, who can access it long-term, and how AI models utilize this data. The Filecoin network has a unique advantage in addressing these challenges by implementing decentralization and transparency, creating auditable and tamper-proof ways for AI projects to verify their models, datasets, and computations.
Flexibility and Scalability: Additionally, as tech giants invest billions in additional storage infrastructure to meet growing market demands, Filecoin is designed to accommodate PB-level and even exbibyte-level storage, being at the forefront of achieving decentralized computing.
The Filecoin network is the backbone of a better version of the internet. Data storage is the foundation for the internet's operation and is also the basis for the credibility and integrity of AI systems. Here, you can read more about how decentralized AI and data storage build trust in the field of AI.
Learn how AI organizations are using Filecoin
Filecoin Foundation (FF) recently announced partnerships with SingularityNET, Theoriq, Bagel, Nuklai, and Aethir, each highlighting the versatility of the Filecoin network as decentralized AI infrastructure. The decentralized infrastructure of the Filecoin network provides a foundational layer for AI applications to scale efficiently, securely, and transparently.
SingularityNET: SingularityNET and FF are collaborating to store metadata on Filecoin via Lighthouse, enhancing the security and provenance of decentralized data storage.
Theoriq: FF and Theoriq are developing AI agents trained on open datasets stored on Filecoin, which includes an existing project supporting natural language queries for Filecoin documents, and a proposed project leveraging decrypted CIA datasets for efficient and verifiable research.
Bagel: FF collaborates with Bagel to enable AI developers to use Filecoin's decentralized computing and storage network to train and store models, optimizing resource utilization for machine learning workloads and promoting the adoption of decentralized infrastructure.
Nuklai: Nuklai has integrated Filecoin to make metadata publicly accessible and is exploring the use of Filecoin as the core storage cluster for enterprise use cases, providing secure, permanent, and decentralized data storage.
Aethir: Aethir and FF are collaborating to address GPU scarcity issues and enhance data security driven by AI. Aethir has announced support for the Filecoin network, offering advanced GPU leasing capabilities to improve data processing and storage efficiency.
Fast Company editor Brendan Vaughan stated: "(The next big event in tech) provides readers with an interesting perspective to glimpse recent and long-term technological breakthroughs across various fields, from semiconductors to agricultural gene editing, with the companies featured this year addressing some of the world's most pressing and challenging problems."
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