Project Introduction:
Sahara AI is a decentralized artificial intelligence network that allows everyone to leverage their knowledge capital to discover monetization and automation opportunities through AI.
The main focus of the project is on the following aspects:
1. Self-Positioning: A decentralized blockchain platform for an open, fair, and collaborative AI economy.
2. Core Concept: 'AI Assets', which refers to the ownership and management agreements of private AI resources (such as personal data and proprietary models).
3. Target Audience: AI developers, data providers, and other stakeholders, including C-end users and B-end users, as well as the AI asset trading community.
4. Service Content: From data collection and labeling to model training and services, AI agent creation and deployment, multi-agent communication, AI asset trading, and AI resource crowdsourcing.
Project Financing Situation:
Sahara AI announced the completion of a $43 million financing round in August 2024, led by Binance Labs, Pantera Capital, and Polychain Capital, with participation from Samsung, Jingwei Ventures, Thai Commercial Bank, Foresight Ventures, dao5, Alumni Ventures, Geekcartel, Nomad Capital, and Mirana Ventures.
Project Team Background:
The team members of Sahara AI include Sean Ren (@xiangrenNLP), an AI professor at the University of Southern California and chair of the Viterbi Center (previously worked at Ai 2, Snapchat, Stanford University, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Tyler Zhou (@tz_sahara), former investment director at Binance Labs, and several key members with prestigious backgrounds responsible for product, operations, ecosystem building, and community work.
Recent Project Developments:
On December 18, 2024, Sahara AI announced the launch of the Beta version testing network for the first phase of the data platform, attracting over 780,000 users to sign up, with more than 10,000 candidates obtaining early participation eligibility.
Through the testing network, ordinary users can not only contribute to the AI ecosystem through data collection, optimization, and labeling tasks but also receive generous rewards and participate in building the world's first decentralized AI collaboration platform.
Future Project Plans:
The Sahara AI project roadmap for 2024-2025 has been released:
1. Launch of the first phase of the testing network via the data service platform in Q4 2024.
2. Launch of the AI marketplace in Q1 2025, introducing limited access to developer tools and expanding the data service platform.
3. Launch of the integrated tool Sahara Studio for simplified AI development in Q2 2025, including model training toolkit, model deployment toolkit, and model orchestration toolkit.
4. Launch of the Sahara Chain mainnet in Q3 2025, providing the on-chain infrastructure necessary for large-scale decentralized AI.
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