How to capture the breakout moment in the AI sector during a bull market?
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How to capture the breakout moment in the AI sector during a bull market?
The AI sector has become a core area in the current bull market.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsAuthor: Viee, Core Contributor at Biteye
Editor: Crush, Core Contributor at Biteye
Community: @BiteyeCN
* Approximately 2500 words, estimated reading time: 5 minutes
From the powerful combination of AI and DePIN in the first half of the year to the current market cap miracles created by AI+Meme—tokens like $GOAT and $ACT have captured most of the market's attention. It’s clear that the AI sector has become a core area in the current bull market.
If you're bullish on the AI space, what can you do? Beyond AI+Meme, which other AI sectors are worth watching?
01 The AI+Meme Craze and Computing Infrastructure
Continued Confidence in the Explosive Potential of AI+Meme
AI+Meme has recently swept across both on-chain and centralized exchanges, and the trend shows no signs of slowing down.
If you're an on-chain participant, prioritize tokens with new narratives, strong communities, and small market caps—these often present significant wealth effects between primary and secondary markets. For those not active on-chain, consider news arbitrage opportunities when major exchanges like Binance announce listings for such tokens.
Identify High-Quality Projects in the AI Infrastructure Layer, Especially Compute-Related Ones
Computing power is a definitive narrative for AI development, and cloud computing will raise the valuation floor. With explosive growth in AI compute demand—especially driven by technologies like large language models (LLMs)—the need for processing power and storage is increasing almost exponentially.
The advancement of AI technology relies fundamentally on robust computational capabilities. This isn't a short-term phenomenon but a long-term, continuously growing trend. Therefore, projects providing computing infrastructure address the foundational challenges of AI development and possess strong market appeal.
02 Why Is Decentralized Computing So Important?
On one hand, the explosive growth in AI computing power comes with soaring costs
Data from OpenAI shows that since 2012, the computation used to train the largest AI models has nearly doubled every 3–4 months—a pace far exceeding Moore’s Law.
With skyrocketing demand for high-end hardware like GPUs, supply-demand imbalances have pushed computing costs to record highs. For example, the initial GPU investment to train a model like GPT-3 approaches $800 million, with daily inference costs reaching as high as $700,000.
On the other hand, traditional cloud computing can no longer meet current computing demands
AI inference has become a core component of AI applications. It’s estimated that 90% of the computational resources consumed over an AI model’s lifecycle are used during inference.
Traditional cloud platforms typically rely on centralized computing infrastructure. As computing demands surge rapidly, this model clearly can no longer keep up with evolving market needs.
03 Project Analysis: Heurist, a Decentralized GPU Cloud Platform
@heurist_ai emerged under these conditions, offering a novel decentralized solution for a global distributed GPU network, meeting computing demands for AI inference and other GPU-intensive tasks.
As a decentralized GPU cloud platform, Heurist is specifically designed for compute-intensive workloads such as AI inference.
Built on the DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network) protocol, it allows GPU owners to freely contribute their idle computing resources to the network, while users can access these resources via simple APIs/SDKs to easily run complex tasks like AI models and ZK proofs.
Unlike traditional GPU cloud platforms, Heurist eliminates complex virtual machine management and resource scheduling mechanisms, instead adopting a serverless computing architecture that simplifies the use and management of computing resources.
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AI Inference: Heurist’s Core Advantage
AI inference refers to the process of applying trained models in real-world scenarios. Compared to AI training, inference requires relatively less computational power and can typically be executed efficiently on a single GPU or machines equipped with multiple GPUs.
Heurist was designed precisely around this insight, building a globally distributed GPU network capable of efficiently orchestrating computing resources to ensure fast completion of AI inference tasks.
Moreover, Heurist supports more than just AI inference—it also handles tasks such as training small language models and fine-tuning models. Since these tasks don’t require intensive inter-node communication, Heurist can allocate resources more flexibly and cost-effectively, ensuring optimal utilization.
Heurist employs an innovative Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) architecture, offering a platform that abstracts away complex infrastructure management, allowing users and developers to focus solely on deploying and optimizing AI models without worrying about underlying resource management and scaling.
05 Heurist’s Core Features
Heurist offers a suite of powerful features designed to meet diverse user needs:
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Serverless AI API: Users can run over 20 fine-tuned image generation models and large language models (LLMs) with just a few lines of code, drastically lowering technical barriers.
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Elastic Scaling: The platform dynamically adjusts computing resources based on user demand, ensuring stable service even during peak periods.
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Permissionless Mining: GPU owners can join or exit mining activities at any time. This flexibility attracts many high-performance GPU users to participate.
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Free-to-Use AI Applications: Heurist provides various free applications including image generation, chat assistants, and search engines, enabling regular users to directly experience AI technology.
06 Heurist’s Free AI Applications
The Heurist team has already launched several free AI applications suitable for everyday use by ordinary users. Here are some specific examples:
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Heurist Imagine: A powerful AI image generator that enables users to easily create artwork without any design background. 🔗https://imagine.heurist.ai/
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Pondera: An intelligent chat assistant offering natural, fluent conversation experiences, helping users easily access information or solve problems. 🔗 https://pondera.heurist.ai/
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Heurist Search: An efficient AI-powered search engine that helps users quickly find needed information, boosting productivity. 🔗 https://search.heurist.ai/
07 Heurist’s Latest Developments
Heurist recently completed a $2 million funding round led by prominent investors including Amber Group, laying a solid foundation for its future growth.
In addition, Heurist is preparing for its TGE and plans to collaborate with OKX Wallet on an AIGC NFT minting campaign. This event will reward 100,000 ZK tokens to 1,000 participants, creating greater community engagement opportunities.
Event link: https://app.galxe.com/quest/OKXWEB3/GC1JjtVfaM
Computing power is the core driver behind AI development. Any decentralized computing project reliant on compute sits at the pinnacle of the industry. Such projects not only meet the growing demand for AI computing power but, thanks to their infrastructure stability and market potential, have become hot targets for capital.
As Heurist continues to expand its ecosystem and roll out new features, we have good reason to believe that decentralized AI computing platforms will play a pivotal role in the global AI industry.
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