TL;DR
Arweave is taking its established decentralized file storage system and making use of it to AI-compute (the place, as an alternative of shopping for storage, customers can purchase 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 needed to compete with them, that they had to determine easy methods to scale their compute methods.
However Amazon’s revelation impressed them to present their edge up utterly.
They took what they’d created → then shifted its entry from personal, to public, so as 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 methods.
Right now we’re seeing an analogous transition from the Arweave protocol.
Arweave is a decentralized, everlasting file sharing system (assume: Dropbox, however you solely ever pay for storage as soon as, as an alternative of month-to-month).
And with their new ‘AO’ protocol, they’re taking their established methods and making use of them to AI-compute.
(The place, as an alternative of shopping for storage, customers can purchase entry to computing energy).
Right here’s why that is cool:
This opens the door for public, immutable AI fashions to dwell/develop on the blockchain, the place they’re proof against regulatory manipulation and sure vectors of assault.
(Trigger with out central server farm, unhealthy actors lack a dependable goal).
Helluva idea!
