TechFlow news, October 16 — The NEAR Foundation and Delphi Labs have announced the launch of a joint AI accelerator program, revealing its first cohort of selected projects. This initiative aims to support and rapidly scale high-potential projects at the intersection of AI and Web3. Selected projects will receive comprehensive support, including technical mentorship, fundraising opportunities, and access to the expert networks of NEAR and Delphi. Each team will also receive $50,000 in computing credits from compute partner Aethir, ensuring they have the computational resources needed to develop and deploy resource-intensive AI models.
The首批 eight projects selected are:
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Hyperspace: Building a decentralized peer-to-peer AI network, already attracting over 7,000 unique nodes.
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Almanak: Providing an end-to-end platform for building, testing, training, optimizing, and deploying agents for DeFi, with its agents already managing significant assets for institutional partners.
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Questflow: Developing a decentralized network for orchestrating multi-agent AI automation, focused on the SEO market.
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Q Star Labs: Building a decentralized generative AI protocol for mass-producing interactive autonomous AI influencers; its AI influencers have already amassed over 27,000 followers.
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ZettaBlock: Laying the foundation for open and trustless AI development by providing infrastructure that unifies on-chain and off-chain data.
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Magic: Redefining the use of private data in AI by enabling companies and developers to train AI models using private data while preserving data integrity and privacy.
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dFusion: Building a consensus-driven framework for curating and verifying high-quality data to ensure accuracy and reliability in AI model training.
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Peri Labs: Creating an open marketplace that leverages underutilized compute resources from billions of consumer devices to power optimized AI models.
