Arweave announced Arweave AO, a public testnet of its “extremely scalable” computing layer designed to support social media and AI applications. The network is built on Arweave’s data storage platform and is designed to provide higher scalability than any existing blockchain. Arweave AO enables high-performance computing by separating the three main parts of a blockchain operation into independent components that can communicate with each other and execute large numbers of transactions simultaneously. The Arweave team hopes to officially launch the mainnet in 2024.