I was shocked by SaharaLabsAI's $43 million in financing these two days. In the cold market, it can get such a large amount of financing from the top capital, which is admirable. I checked the background of the project and was really shocked. The founder Sean Ren is a tenured professor at the University of Southern California and a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford. He has been deeply engaged in the field of AI for the past 10 years. He was named Samsung's annual AI researcher and Forbes' 30 elites under 30. Chief Operating Officer Tyler Zhou was the investment director of Binance Labs and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. With this lineup and combination, it is highly likely that the later projects will be listed on Binance, which is worth paying attention to!
AI is one of the biggest tracks in this cycle. Compared with the traditional#Web2market, it is still in its early stages. According to @coingecko data, the entire Web3+AI market currently has a market value of only US$20.6 billion, while NVIDIA alone has a market value of 3 trillion. The growth space and potential are unlimited.
Why #Web3+#AIis so important. I often say that#AIis the new productive force and#Web3is the new production relationship. The new production relationship mainly solves three problems: 1. The relationship made by the means of production (sovereign individuals). 2. The status and exchange relationship in production (the role of value creation). 3. The product distribution relationship and the consumption relationship directly determined by it (distribution problem).
Currently, AI in our Web2 field has many problems with the old production relations. Due to oligopoly, large technology companies have basically achieved complete control from the source data end, computing power end, model end, and user-oriented product end of AI. As a result, there is no clear compensation and confirmation of data, and user data privacy cannot be effectively protected (sovereign individuals); model contributors are forcibly bound by oligarchs and cannot receive fair compensation (role ambiguity); artificial intelligence assets cannot be fairly created, shared, and traded (unfair distribution), resulting in a large amount of resource waste and repeated training.
Sahara AI was born to address the above pain points. As a decentralized AI blockchain platform, it will reshape the future of AI, making it more transparent, secure, and accessible to everyone. It will realize the reconstruction of new production relations in the AI ââera!
The project has received support from top AI and Web3 investors, including Binance Labs, Pantera Capital, Polychain Capital, Sequoia Capital, Samsung, GeekCartel, Matrix Partners, etc., and aims to build a decentralized AI blockchain platform that prioritizes AI sovereignty, fairness, and accessibility, so that everyone can own and shape the future of AI. Currently, Sahara AI has received support and trust from more than 35 leading technology innovators and research institutions, including Microsoft, Amazon, MIT, Motherson, and Snap.
It is not difficult to find that the project came from Web2 and went to Web3, carrying with it the historical mission and industry pains. Through the realization of AI sovereignty and open technology, it creates an ethical, transparent, and accessible AI future. I believe that in the near future, Sahara AI will become the leading project in the #Web3+#AIfield. Stay tuned!
