TL;DR
Arweave is taking its established decentralized file storage system and making use of it to AI-compute (the place, as a substitute of shopping for storage, customers should buy entry to computing energy).
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Within the early 2000’s Amazon had a serious revelation…
They’d constructed an enormous server farm which managed all of their information and compute energy — which is famously onerous to do from scratch.
This gave Amazon an edge.
If anybody wished to compete with them, that they had to determine tips on how to scale their compute programs.
However Amazon’s revelation impressed them to offer their edge up utterly.
They took what they’d created → then shifted its entry from non-public, to public, to be able to seize a brand new market.
The brand new system was known as Amazon Net Companies (AWS) — and it allowed anybody/everybody to purchase entry to Amazon’s compute energy and information storage programs.
Right this moment we’re seeing the same transition from the Arweave protocol.
Arweave is a decentralized, everlasting file sharing system (suppose: Dropbox, however you solely ever pay for storage as soon as, as a substitute of month-to-month).
And with their new ‘AO’ protocol, they’re taking their established programs and making use of them to AI-compute.
(The place, as a substitute of shopping for storage, customers should buy entry to computing energy).
Right here’s why that is cool:
This opens the door for public, immutable AI fashions to stay/develop on the blockchain, the place they’re proof against regulatory manipulation and sure vectors of assault.
(Trigger with out central server farm, dangerous actors lack a dependable goal).
Helluva idea!
