TechFlow reports on March 16, according to TheDefiant, CZ stated during a discussion with vana—an AI project invested in by YZi Labs—on the topic of "Artificial Intelligence, Crypto, and the New Data Economy" that AI is a foundational technology that "is not going away," and data serves as the fuel for AI models. Since AI has already exhausted all publicly available data, it now requires access to new data sources unavailable on Web2 platforms.
CZ emphasized that cryptocurrency is the native currency of AI, and fundamentally, data is a form of property worth protecting.




