Masa: The Decentralized AI Data Network
Build the Future of AI with the World’s Largest Proprietary User Data Network
Introduction
The meteoric rise of artificial intelligence in the past year has drawn in developers from all over the world to take part in the most exciting technological trend in human history.
Every couple of months we are getting a new version of a GPT or large-language model (LLMs), which is an order of magnitude more powerful than the last. However, when we peer under the hood of these LLMs — we are left with one BIG question:
The competitive gap between AI models is closing very quickly. What is your moat in AI? How can AI developers differentiate and stand out?
AI models such as Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT are all reaching close to parity. Additionally, AI applications launched by thousands of startups keep getting disrupted by the big AI tech companies with each feature update. The gap is closing, models are getting cheaper to train, and all the models are also being trained on the same set of publicly scraped data, and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to stand out.
But what if we told you there is a completely novel, proprietary, user-generated data set you could use to train AI? Enter Masa Network.
Innovative Proprietary Data Collection in the AI Era
At Masa, we focus on democratizing the core resources driving a competitive moat in AI: proprietary, high-quality, verified personal data. Masa has designed a unique way to collect proprietary user data to train AI models — by turning our users into data contributors and data scrapers.
Users can easily contribute their data to the Masa Network, through participating in quests on the Masa App, surfing the internet with the Masa Google Chrome Extension, or simply living their digital lives in the Masa Partner Ecosystem. Additionally, every user can become a data scraper with the Masa Google Chrome Extension. The Masa Oracle Network acts as a decentralized web data scraper that seamlessly extracts text from websites, Twitter streams, authenticated sites and more to feed into our vector databases.
Masa sits in the background and aggregates user’s massive digital footprint — including a user’s history, preferences, and behaviors — beyond the traditional publicly available data. The Masa Network makes data private and secure through our invention of zero-knowledge Soulbound Token, while giving users the power to share and earn from their personal data.
Developers can easily access this powerful data set through setting up data staking pools on the Masa Network, directly rewarding users who choose to share their data. Developers can use this data to train AI models which are “specialized” rather than “generalized,” creating hyper-personalized AI agents, AI assistants, and more.
This proprietary and structured data set can power truly unique, valuable, and powerful AI applications, not available anywhere else. By focusing on expanding the breadth and depth of data aggregation, Masa is giving developers the ability to train AI on a proprietary, hyper-personalized, and constantly growing data network that can lead to a competitive moat in AI.
Real-Time & Decentralized Data Access
Additionally, Masa is decentralizing the large-language models themselves. Giving developers access to fine tune and integrate a vast suite of open-source LLMs, without the need for complex model hosting. Through Masa’s Oracle Network node operators deliver OpenAI-compatible APIs and state-of-the-art models that have high availability.
Traditionally, AI models can only retrieve data and information based on the last update. This often creates general answers to questions on information which is inherently out-dated.
Masa’s Decentralized LLMs will give developers the ability to search within the data network in real-time. With millions of users supplying data into the network each day — it makes for a unique approach to data that can detect trends, make predictions and even form sentiment analysis.
Decentralized data access allows for LLMs to evaluate encrypted data in the network to make conclusions or render results without ever revealing any sensitive or personal information stored within the network.
In Conclusion
At Masa, we’re building a truly unique approach to AI. By empowering developers to build on a unique and proprietary set of structured data, we’re ushering in a new wave of innovation not found anywhere else in the AI movement.
By decentralizing access to our data network, we ensure data remains encrypted, private and secure, while enabling real-time data results and offering out-of-the box decentralized large-language models for your applications.
Masa has built one of the most unique data moats in the AI landscape, and is set to invert the power and value dynamics of AI. This ambitious mission is made possible by our already over 1.3-million users in our network, before the Masa Network mainnet launch on or around April 11th.
We invite you to learn more and build on Masa — the world’s personal data network.
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