Introduction to Sahara AI
Sahara is a trustless, permissionless, and privacy-centric network that allows individuals and enterprises to create customized autonomous knowledge agents. By leveraging this decentralized network, everyone can utilize their knowledge capital to explore monetization and automation opportunities through artificial intelligence. Its first launched products, Sahara Knowledge Agent (KA) and Sahara Data, are two cornerstone offerings. Sahara KA is an AI that far exceeds conversational capabilities, automatically analyzing external and internal proprietary data to provide reliable decisions based on specific needs. Sahara Data offers high-value data services for AI model training, addressing security and privacy issues in data processing.
Introduction to Sahara Founders
Sean Ren is the co-founder and CEO of Sahara. He was previously a professor at the University of Southern California and has received honors such as Samsung's Annual AI Researcher, MIT TR 35 Innovator Under 35 (Asia-Pacific), and Forbes Asia 30 Under 30, making significant contributions to AI research and innovation.
Tyler Zhou is the co-founder and COO of Sahara, and was previously the investment director at Binance Labs. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.
Sahara not only provides data-related processing tools such as a data marketplace, but its execution layer also ensures that user data can train their own AI under privacy protection while providing relevant infrastructure tools to help users better build KA.
The Sahara network supports users in customizing their AI Agents without sacrificing their data privacy and also offers a no-code platform for building Agents.
Sahara's Financing Journey
2024-08-14 Sahara completed a $43 million Series A financing round with participation from Binance Labs*, Pantera Capital*, Polychain*, dao5, Nomad Capital, Mirana Ventures, Samsung Next, Foresight Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Alumni Ventures, GeekCartel, Tangent, Dispersion Capital, Canonical Crypto, Matrix Partners, SCB 10X, and Aegis Ventures.
2024-03-05 Sahara completed a $6 million seed round financing with participation from Polychain*, Samsung Next, dao5, Nomad Capital, Sequoia China, GeekCartel, Canonical Crypto, Dispersion Capital, Alumni Ventures, Tangent, Matrix Partners, Coho Deeptech, and Sandeep Nailwal.
Background Resources
Team: Sahara AI is composed of experts from the AI and Web3 industries, all with rich experience from leading tech companies and renowned research institutions, including Stanford University, the University of Southern California, the University of California, Berkeley, AI2, Microsoft, Binance, Stability AI, Google, Chainlink, Protocol Labs, Avalanche, and more.
The company was founded and is led by Sean Ren, an AI professor and chairman of the Viterbi Center at the University of Southern California, and Tyler Zhou, the former investment director at Binance Labs.
Sahara Project Summary
The core technology behind Sahara AI is decentralized AI. In addition to focusing on the company itself, the development of this new technology field is also worth paying attention to.
The core advantage of decentralized AI lies in its ability to provide a more open, transparent, and secure data processing platform. Sahara AI's decentralized data marketplace not only offers high-value data services for enterprises, but also ensures that data contributors receive reasonable economic compensation through its unique ownership proof mechanism.
By collaborating with over 30 companies, Sahara is continuously refining its products to make them increasingly mature, better adapting to the data needs of various global enterprises and businesses, forming a positive cycle.
