To be honest, there are many people who could be nominated alongside Avery Ching for this year’s most influential list. The blockchain, Aptos (APT), that he helped develop as chief technology officer of Matonee is one of a number of next-generation chains we could have nominated. Each has significant financial…
One of the major crypto stories of 2023 was the rollout of the Coinbase exchange’s layer 2 network, “Base,” which made use of Optimism’s blockchain technology. The face of OP Labs, the main development firm for the popular Optimism protocol, is CEO Karl Floersch. He started in this role in…
Open-source cloud AI startup Together is the latest developer to draw a hefty payday as more and more investors pour money into artificial intelligence, announcing on Wednesday that the company raised $102.5 million in Series A investments—including from technology giant NVIDIA. “I think one of the things that excited investors…
Yesterday, Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin published a long, long blogpost delineating a new philosophy of techno-optimism. It is called d/acc, with the d standing for decentralization, defensive and/or differential and the “/acc” a trendy shorthand on social media for “acceleration.” This is an excerpt from The Node newsletter, a daily…
The Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Project Guardian has been making waves in recent months for its progressive approach to digital assets. For instance, MAS recently launched the world’s first live repurchase transaction using a digitally native bond on a public blockchain. This and countless other innovations mark a significant milestone…
Curiosity about Meta’s next big move is reaching a fever pitch in the race to dominate the artificial intelligence landscape. With its Llama 2 generative text model—released in July—well established in the marketplace, AI watchers are hungrily searching for signs of Llama 3. If industry murmurs are to be believed,…
An artificial intelligence (AI) model developed in China is making waves on a number of fronts, including its open-source nature and for its ability to handle up to 200,000 tokens of context—vastly exceeding other popular models like Anthropic’s Claude (100,000 tokens) or OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo (128,000 tokens). Dubbed the Yi…
Meta is restructuring of its “Responsible AI” team, reflecting a strategic shift in its approach to artificial intelligence development. The move, first reported by The Information, seems to take a distributed approach amid a roiling landscape where the role of AI in society is increasingly scrutinized. Meta told the news…