The AI ​​data track that CZ publicly recommends, how does OORT start a commercial narrative through DeAI?

Author: Nancy, PANews

Once upon a time, software ate the world. Today, AI is eating software. Standing on the long history of technological progress, the revolution around AI large models is rapidly unfolding and opening up new application spaces at an alarming rate.

Some time ago, Binance founder CZ pointed out when talking about AI, "AI labeling and data processing are very suitable to be completed on the chain, enabling instant (micro) payments through cryptocurrency, while taking advantage of global low-cost labor without geographical restrictions." This view adds fuel to the already hot encrypted AI track, and also drives encryption projects such as OORT that release related products to once again become the focus of the market.

As an early builder of DeAI (decentralized artificial intelligence), OORT, funded by giants such as Microsoft and Google, is a pioneer in the field of decentralized AI. It builds a decentralized trust infrastructure for the AI ​​​​era and realizes commercialization. While applying it, we will promote the democratization and popularization of the AI ​​development process through innovative DeAI solutions.

From data, storage to computing, OORT’s three flagship products unlock

the potential of AI

Since ChatGPT set off a wave of large AI models, major technology giants have competed to get rid of "hand-made" models, and the market once showed a "battle of hundreds of models". In the current AI large model training, "data" has become a must for military strategists, because the data that can be publicly collected around the world has been exhausted.

For all enterprises around the world, data collection, storage and processing, especially the acquisition and annotation of high-quality data, have reached a bottleneck moment in the development process. Traditional centralized cloud service providers usually rely on high-cost and monopolistic data collection models, and often lack transparency and trust. This brings many restrictions to the training and application of AI models, and also raises questions about compliance and A series of moral concerns.

"One of the most pressing problems facing AI is the 'black box' dilemma, where the AI ​​decision-making process is opaque and difficult to audit. The immutable and transparent ledger of blockchain provides a powerful solution, which records every step of the AI ​​life cycle. One stage, from data collection to training to deployment decisions. This ensures that the system can be audited and remains trustworthy by integrating blockchain technology into AI development, ensuring transparency, enforcing ethical guidelines and preventing monopolistic control.” OORT Founder and CEO Dr. Max Li said, "DeAI proposes an AI development model that everyone can participate in, from development to deployment, creating a decentralized AI alternative to challenge centralized AI companies like OpenAI."

In response to the "data black box" problem in the AI ​​field, OORT combines AI and DePIN businesses to not only improve data transparency and traceability issues through blockchain technology, but also uses effective economic incentives to encourage more users to participate in contributions. Ensure the high quality and real-time nature of data, thereby promoting the further implementation and popularization of AI technology applications.

OORT has three flagship products, namely decentralized object storage solution (OORT Storage), decentralized artificial intelligence data collection and annotation (OORT DataHub), and decentralized computing service (OORT Compute). The commercial version has not yet been officially launched. online). These three products provide innovative decentralized solutions for the pain points of data storage, data collection and annotation, and computing services.

Among them, CZ publicly advocates the idea of ​​using blockchain to realize AI data annotation, and OORT has taken the lead in exploring the implementation through OORT DataHub. OORT DataHub is OORT's second commercial product and the world's first decentralized data collection and annotation solution. It can provide developers, enterprises and researchers with decentralized AI data collection and annotation services. The commercial version has been officially launched. .

As we all know, the success of AI requires a large amount of data to learn. In particular, high-quality data sets are an important factor in improving the performance and decision-making capabilities of AI models. However, data annotation and collection generally suffer from uneven quality and high cost. OORT DataHub provides credible and traceable data, while breaking the geographical restrictions of traditional platforms, allowing users around the world to contribute data, such as images, audio or videos, through the DataHub platform to improve AI and machine learning models.

At the same time, in order to better motivate users to participate and contribute data, OORT DataHub has therefore introduced a mechanism to pay global contributors in cryptocurrency. The mechanism starts with points. Contributors can earn points by logging in daily, completing tasks, verifying tasks, and making recommendations, thereby unlocking USDT rewards—this is the fundamental point where traditional data collection cannot achieve truly global data collection. Because the traditional banking system cannot effectively implement global cross-border micropayments. In addition, OORT DataHub also introduces NFT as an additional incentive mechanism to share the revenue rights of future data sales. It is worth mentioning that in order to promote product adoption on a large scale, OORT has launched the OORT DataHub mini-app to achieve seamless integration with Telegram.

OORT Storage can provide secure storage and management of hot and cold data. In addition to meeting enterprise-level availability, durability and latency requirements in terms of performance, and integrating AI for easy data interaction, it also provides better performance than traditional storage systems such as AWS. Giant discounts up to 80% on on-demand billing services. Not only that, in order to enhance the privacy protection of user data, OORT adopts a decentralized data infrastructure to achieve data management, which can effectively resist censorship and single points of failure. Currently, OORT Storage supports links to popular storage management tools such as ChatGPT, AWS CLI, Rclone, and S3 Browser.

OORT Compute, which has not yet been officially launched, is a decentralized computing service with the advantages of low cost, high privacy and easy access. It can achieve decentralized data analysis and processing (such as training and fine-tuning of large models) by integrating global GPU resources. ), this product has not yet been officially launched.

In this process, in order to ensure the reliability and availability of data and realize the globalization of the DeAI ecological network, OORT's cloud infrastructure layer adopts a three-layer node architecture, including super nodes such as Tencent Cloud and SEAGATE, Filecoin, Storj and Backup nodes such as Arweave and edge nodes composed of personal devices. As of now, OORT has more than 65,000 network nodes.

From this point of view, OORT can not only effectively solve the pain points of data collection, storage and processing in the AI ​​industry, but also reduce data collection and computing costs through a decentralized mechanism, providing strong infrastructure support for AI development.

Technology exploration in a business context, academic achievements

emerge from the "ivory tower"

Past experience tells us that every new technology must undergo a transformation from infrastructure construction to commercial implementation, otherwise it will be difficult to form a real competitive moat. OORT is also continuing to promote the "realization" of AI technology. Through effective commercialization paths, it not only builds its own advantages, but also promotes the application of AI technology in various industries.

For example, the global loyalty program of technology giant Dell has integrated OORT Storage business to provide Dell customers with decentralized storage services, including data storage and migration; OORT signed a three-year contract with Lenovo Zhixiang, which can be achieved through its customized AI assistant 40% cost savings and 95% customer satisfaction rate; Tencent Cloud becomes the full node provider of the OORT network, and applications deployed on the former data cloud can obtain more comprehensive data services and enhance their privacy and security; OORT is BNB Greenfield provides storage support and ensures privacy and cost-effectiveness; OORT partners with the National Science Foundation's eCAT IUCRC research center to improve the safety and efficiency of electric, connected and autonomous vehicles, etc...

Behind OORT's successful trial of commercialization, it was not originally to chase a short-term market boom, but to meet the actual needs of an academic challenge. As early as 2018, OORT founder and CEO Dr. Max Li encountered a problem when teaching an artificial intelligence course at Columbia University. When his graduate students were working on a project that required training AI Agents, they discovered that traditional cloud computing services (such as Amazon AWS and Google Cloud) are too expensive for students and well beyond their budget. This question inspired Max to think deeply about how to optimize cloud computing costs through blockchain technology, which not only helped students successfully complete the project, but also laid the foundation for the birth of OORT.

Max’s profound academic and technical background also laid a solid foundation for OORT to step out of the academic “ivory tower”. As an experienced technology industry expert, he served as a researcher at Qualcomm Research Institute and participated in the design of 4G LTE and 5G systems. He is also a prolific inventor and technology expert, holding more than 200 international and U.S. patents. Covers a variety of areas, especially in areas such as communications and machine learning. OORT’s other core team members are also very powerful, and they mainly come from world-renowned institutions such as Columbia University, Qualcomm, AT&T, and JPMorgan Chase.

With solid technology accumulation, strong team strength, successful commercial products and clear market positioning, OORT has also been highly recognized by the capital market and received nearly US$10 million in financing this year from investors including Taisu Ventures and Red Beard Ventures. , Hike Ventures and Optic Capital, as well as support from tech giants Microsoft and Google. In Max’s view, 2025 will be the year when decentralized AI moves from niche to commercialization and implementation. The integration of blockchain and AI will gradually become mainstream and have a profound impact on development in the next few decades.

In short, as a hot potential stock in the field of DeAI, the continued commercialization of OORT not only reflects the transformation of its technical strength based on actual commercial needs, but also reveals the huge market potential in the field of DeAI, which will inject more energy into the popularization and progress of AI technology. More motivation.