itarutomy

Stablecoins Are Defense Tech

USD stablecoins are critical for protecting the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency.

If the US doesn't digitize the dollar via stablecoins, it risks losing its central role in the global financial system.

https://www.nfx.com/post/stablecoins-defense

1kx has published a mirror of the importance of evaluating token economics and estimating costs in DePIN. Interesting and DD-like in venture investing.

https://mirror.xyz/1kx.eth/eixy4sKhLVvexT-PmcBTUCGCR66ET_9iX4cAd-ShOuM

https://www.thedailyupside.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-may-want-its-ai-models-to-speak-to-the-heart/

The mechanism of Microsoft's patented AI model capable of natural conversation is quite educational.

For instance, when a user asks, "What is exciting about living in New York?", the system responds to the word "exciting" and answers in an enthusiastic tone.

A16z has compiled a Github of demo apps and recommended tech stacks for making LLM apps, which may be helpful for beginning students.

https://a16z.com/ai/

NIKLAS, the VC of Network State, which is advancing Prospera, is advocating pop-up cities as a new urban development strategy. Does this sound like Network State's MVP?

Substack
https://www.strandedtechnologies.com/p/the-evolution-of-network-state-building

here:
https://www.vccafe.com/2024/05/14/israels-growing-generative-ai-landscape-may-2024-edition/

The number of #generatedAI startups in Israel is doubling, jumping from 144 as of September 2023 to 238 in just 8 months.

🔍Top 5 procurement companies by main category
Marketing & Sales (29 firms)
Security (23 firms)
Healthcare (18 firms)
Productivity (18 firms)
Customer Support (16 companies)

New Yup will come!
https://yup.mirror.xyz/JglzysR1avpqWpQpaFb6m7oISg03OM7jl9kMdGB5bTw

What is your AI business pricing model? I choose the user account and credit based pricing. Since LLM costs is not progressively decreasing...

https://www.growthunhinged.com/p/how-ai-apps-make-money

Runway hosts the AI Film Festival. I am amazed that this startup is creating culture through events. Are there any startups that are creating culture through events like this?

https://twitter.com/runwayml/status/1783129719279341648

MicroStrategy announced BTC DID "orange"!

I think they are utilizing inscriptions and Ordinals, but from Saylor's perspective, it's acceptable to use them for DID, which is pretty cool. I wonder how they plan to use them?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lwqLXaYoavE

LayerZero's first quarter 2024 report has arrived at Messari, and it seems to be growing. Is any one actually using Stargate and such?

https://messari.io/report/state-of-layerzero-q1-2024

Be Interdisciplinary🎨
https://twitter.com/PropheticAI/status/1785015306597097518

Play with Putin in ALIAgents. They imitate friend tech bonding curve and share profits from AI agent NFT.

DAI Pioneering Project Ritual.net!

👉 Provides a cryptographic infrastructure to enable open creation, distribution, and improvement of AI models
👉 Features a decentralized network, open & permissioned system, and privacy protection

As CEO Niraj Pant says, "Ritual aims to realize sovereign AI."

BeWater, a venture studio in the Web3 space, has released an AI * Crypto Report.

They organize specific combinations:
① Crypto supporting AI from within
② AI supporting crypto from the outside
③ Coexistence of AI and crypto

Maximize the synergy between!

https://docs.bewater.xyz/zh/guide/

SunContract uses blockchain and NFTs to make solar power accessible. NFTs tied to real panels send daily profits to user wallets. NFT buyers need only a smartphone to manage their solar investments, simplifying the process.

https://beincrypto.com/clean-energy-solar-power-plant-nfts/

🚀Safe acquired B2B wallet Multis to integrate smart accounts and business wallets.

The acquisition strengthens Safe's Layer2 presence and treasury management, bolstering the ecosystem through a healthy M&A.

https://multis.com/post/multis-is-acquired-by-safe

The $SAFE token, specialized in Account Abstraction, has launched with distribution divided into five categories: User Participation, Guardian rewards, Strategic Procurement, Core Contributors, and Safe Foundation support.

https://safe.mirror.xyz/dMVdckH7r-ZoBOuIakiG7wTna0kT5_f1Q4Hxnc1-b3I

Crypto and AI collaborate for him jailbreak!

https://x.com/betafuzz/status/1778942644762100142

Is anyone using Cohere for RAG?

With Cohere and ElasticSearch, can I use Cohere embedding to easily find the data I want to find in the RDB?

https://docs.cohere.com/docs/elasticsearch-and-cohere?ref=txt.cohere.com

ByteDance Generative AI Strategies:
① Launched 4 new apps: Cici AI, Coze, ChitChop, BagelBell
③ Entering video generation AI with highly rated MagicVideo-V2
④ Developing in-house large language model "Project Seed"

Where do you all think startups can compete in this space?

🌿 $BONSAI is garnering attention as a new type of meme coin on LensProtocol.

✅ Implemented DN-404 combining ERC-20 token ($BONSAI) and ERC-721 NFT (BONSAI NFT).
✅ Automatically owns one BONSAI NFT for every 100,000 $BONSAI.
✅ Acquires 77% share of paid mints on Lens.

Learning GPU Supply and Demand 👀

https://gpus.llm-utils.org/nvidia-h100-gpus-supply-and-demand/

🚀 Claude Tool use (function calling)

https://docs.anthropic.com/claude/docs/tool-use

Try Bunzz smart contract audit by the powerful Generative AI solution.

https://x.com/bunzzdev/status/1775006185269432469?s=46&t=dr-2SP_fy4dp3Bf4tVGh7Q

Too many Farcaster Native Token 🎩

https://twitter.com/carlosecgomes/status/1774522695436152970

For the first attachment, I think it might be used as Context, and from the second time onward, it is retrieved using RAG. Does anyone know about this?

For long files in Claude, I wonder if they are stored in Memory or History, or if they are retrieved using RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)? Or maybe the tokens are consumed each time by referencing them as Context?