Masa Bittensor Subnet 42 Mainnet is LIVE

Masa’s Subnet 42 is advancing mission to supercharge open and permissionless #AI data aggregation, transformation, and access.

The Subnet is powered by a competitive global network of miners contributing data, verified for accuracy by validators, and used by AI developers to train generalized and specialized artificial intelligence.

Real-Time Data: Essential for building robust datasets or feeding real-time context into LLMs (Large Language Models). Useful for #AI models that need continuous data to reflect the latest trends, market movements, or social sentiment. Static (Indexed) Data: Continuously updated by miners and stored for further processing into vector embeddings, powering Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows.

The Masa Subnet 42 delivers nearly 20-billion data points daily to the #Bittensor ecosystem.Real-time daily data includes:

→ X: 350M Tweets from 586M users

→ Discord: 4B messages from 150M users

→ Telegram: 15B messages from 900M users

→ Podcasts: 120K new episodes

→ YouTube: 720K hours of YouTube content

StoryProtocol raises a monster $80M Series B (at a reported $2.25B valuation) for its IP blockchain that enables creators to flourish in the age of AI

Intellectual property (IP) is one of the world’s biggest asset classes.Training data, AI models, memes, UGC videos, game assets, character traits and more are all IP.
Everything is IP.

With the rise of AI, IP becomes even more valuable. IP serves as the foundational input that large models train on. Put simply, without IP, AI is likely to hit a ceiling.
Story is creating a win-win future where creators can both protect and grow their IP in the age of AI.

Story is the world’s IP blockchain, a Layer 1 that seeks to tokenize the multi-trillion-dollar asset class of intellectual property. Creators use Story to declare sovereignty around their IP, set usage rules, and build a global network where fans remix, sell, and promote their work.

The Microsoft-backed blockchain AI startup raises $20 million

Space and Time Labs, the startup behind the development of the decentralized data platform for blockchain AI applications of the same name, announced that it has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Framework Ventures, Lightspeed Faction, Arrington Capital, and Hivemind Capital. Other investors such as M12, DCG, F-Prime Capital, OKX Ventures, and Circle Ventures also participated in the funding.

The funds from the latest investment round will be used to accelerate product development, technical enhancements, and to further grow the ecosystem and community.

With this funding, Space and Time has raised a total of $50 million across three rounds: Seed, Strategic, and Series A. Notably, the $20 million Strategic round in 2022 was led by M12, the venture capital arm of tech giant Microsoft.

Fetch_ai FET launches a $10M Innovation Lab

Decentralized machine learning platform Fetch.ai is launching a hub in San Francisco, California to advance artificial intelligence technology.

The new hub, Innovation Lab, will onboard early-stage startups working on AI agent solutions — software that uses artificial intelligence to perform specific tasks or make decisions for users or other systems. 

According to Fetch.ai, it will allocate $10 million in annual funding for projects using the platform to build AI agents. Funding will be milestone-based, with a $1 million cap per project. The autonomous AI agents market is expected to reach $88.1 billion by 2032.