Masa Unveils Decentralized AI Developer Ecosystem

Introducing Thirteen AI Projects & Future Plans for Powering Innovation on Masa with Decentralized Data and LLMs

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12 min readApr 25, 2024

Introduction

AI is transforming the world at the fastest pace of any technology in human history. By 2030, AI companies are projected to create over $1 trillion in value, with the most significant impacts stemming from AI-powered, hyper-personalized experiences.

We stand at a crossroads in AI development: Centralized vs. Decentralized AI. Centralized AI is forging ahead with concentrated resources and imbalanced power dynamics between Big Tech and users. On the other hand, decentralized AI promises cost-effectiveness, fairness, user incentivization, and resilience. At Masa, we believe that the future of AI lies in decentralization.

The current Decentralized AI Stack consists of three critical components: Compute, LLMs, and Data. Masa’s positioning as an “AI Data and LLM Network” is crystal clear — developers can effortlessly build AI applications leveraging our user-consented and user-aggregated data and open-source LLM network, while users can own, share, and earn from their data to power AI applications.

On April 11th, we introduced Masa and MASA Token to the world. Today, we are proud to unveil the Masa AI Ecosystem, including our AI developer products, the initial cohort of AI developers, and a preview of Masa’s AI developer ecosystem events in 2024.

Introducing Masa’s Decentralized AI Developer Ecosystem

We are excited to introduce our first cohort of AI developers building in the Masa Decentralized AI Ecosystem. In this flourishing ecosystem, we are witnessing numerous innovative use cases of Masa’s Decentralized AI Data and LLM Network, such as powering AI-generated crypto market analysis, enhancing the user-engagement of AI agents’ hyper-personalized experiences, and enabling Decentralized AI developers with Masa Data and LLM.

By empowering these visionary partners with Decentralized AI Data and LLMs, Masa is catalyzing a new era of AI innovation and collaboration. The Masa Ecosystem not only enables the development of more powerful and hyper-personalized AI applications but also fosters a vibrant community where AI developers, node workers, and end-users can all benefit from the value created by decentralized AI.

We are thrilled to spotlight the initial partners participating in the Masa Decentralized AI Developer Ecosystem…

Masa’s Decentralized AI Ecosystem Partners

CharacterX: CharacterX is a decentralized synthetic social network that connects humans with AI avatars. By using user-consented social data to train AI models, CharacterX AI friends can provide hyper-personalized user engagement, which might know you better than yourself.

ChainML: ChainML is creating a diverse and incentivized ecosystem of composable collaborative AI agents that autonomously provide web3-native access to powerful AI tools. Masa’s decentralized AI data and LLM network will empower independent AI developers building on ChainML’s upcoming appchain by providing Twitter data and Public Web data through its oracle worker nodes.

Pond: Pond is developing the largest graph AI model with on-chain data that will be used as the foundation model for on-chain trading, security, social and so on. Masa will supplement the Pond AI model with our massive network of user-consented and user-aggregated data.

Holoworld: Holoworld is the first web3 AI and 3D entertainment social network built on blockchain. They are building a network for personalized super intelligence. Holoworld is exploring to utilize Masa’s user-consented and user-aggregated data to power hyper-personalized AI experiences and AI agents.

Spectral: Spectral is building an on-chain agent economy. Builders can use natural language and convert it into Solidity code, making shipping production-grade AI agents accessible. By tapping into structured Twitter and public web data aggregated by Masa Oracle node workers, Spectral can power hyper-personalized AI agents on its network.

RootData: RootData is building a more structured and trustworthy web3 data layer, making web3 investing easier. Twitter social sentiment data aggregated by Masa Oracle node workers will be used to power various lists and trackers on RootData, surfacing trending projects loved by the web3 community.

DAREN: DAREN is the world’s first AI-driven on-chain service market, building the LinkedIn of web3 connecting talent in a decentralized digital world. Masa’s decentralized AI data will help enrich “LinkedIn Profiles” of leading web3 talent in DAREN’s recruitment market.

JoJoWorld: JoJoWolrd is building a Text-to-3D DeAI Network. JoJoWorld obtains 3D datasets through decentralized means and trains Text-to-3D models to serve institutions and individuals in both web2 and web3. Masa will supply our massive network of user-consented and user-aggregated data for JoJoWorld’s DeAI development.

RIDO: RIDO is building a personal data layer in web3. With a shared vision for the world, Masa and Rido will collaborate and collectively build towards a future of data ownership.

Opencord AI: Opencord AI is building an AI CMO, providing 24/7, cross-platform content creation and management through its AI Agent Collaboration Network. Masa will supply various social and public data aggregated by Masa Oracle node workers to assist with hyper-personalized content creation.

CogniXphere: CogniXphere provides users with a cutting-edge Emotional AI Companion and Web3 AI Assistant with professional Web3 knowledge support and immersive emotional experiences. Masa’s Decentralized AI Data and LLM Network will supply data to make the emotional AI companion more hyper-personalized and tailored to users’ preferences.

Xmultiverse: Xmultiverse is a distributed computing infrastructure services provider. Masa will offer decentralized AI data and LLM infrastructure to developers building on Xmultiverse.

Unibase: Unibase is building the first modular AI network for fully on-chain AI. Masa plans to support developers building on Unibase with decentralized AI Data and LLM resources.

As the Masa Decentralized AI Developer Ecosystem unfolds, we can expect groundbreaking advancements in AI capabilities across various domains, from hyper-personalized experiences and accurate market predictions to AI-powered NFT management and political sentiment analysis. Masa’s decentralized AI data and model network, combined with the expertise of its AI Collective partners, is set to drive exponential innovation and shape the future of AI.

Build Decentralized AI with Masa

With the rapid rise of AI, brilliant minds from around the globe are rushing in to participate in this most exciting technological trend of our generation. However, a significant pain point lies at the heart of AI development: the cost of accessing LLMs and the need for proprietary, structured data to fine-tune them.

Data is the lifeblood of AI, directly influencing the performance, fairness, and reliability of AI models. As the competitive gap between AI models narrows due to an underlying similarity on the data they are trained on, the key differentiator becomes access to unique, proprietary datasets. Especially, datasets that enable the development of hyper-personalized and specialized AI applications.

Enter Masa — a state-of-the-art decentralized AI data and LLM network that combines the power of Data and LLMs. Developers can seamlessly build AI applications leveraging our user-consented and user-aggregated data and open LLM network.

Decentralized AI Data: Leverage User-Consented & User-Aggregated Data to Power AI Applications

At Masa, we enable users to become direct data contributors to train AI. This data is acquired directly from users through the Masa App, Masa Chrome Browser Extension, and collected through Masa’s extensive partner ecosystem. User consent and privacy are always prioritized, as users have full control over their data and can choose which data points to share and with whom.

We also enable users to become data node workers themselves, aggregating data through our Masa Oracle Network and MasaChrome Extension as oracle node workers. Masa’s decentralized oracle network actively scrapes real-time, structured data from the public web and social media platforms — such as Twitter — to enrich our AI data network.

Any AI developer, whether web3 or web2, can instantly tap into our network. With instant access to our network of 1.5 million users who have consented to share over 44 million proprietary data points, developers can leverage this rich dataset to train and refine their AI models. Additionally, our API and a robust network of 42,000 oracle worker nodes provide developers with real-time data from Twitter and the public web, further enhancing the scope and quality of data available for AI applications.

With a throughput of 3.7 million transactions per second, the Masa Oracle Network ensures a high-throughput and horizontally scalable supply of real-time data for AI model training.

How to engage: Interested in leveraging 44-million proprietary, structured data spanning across social sentiments, browsing history, and wallet interactions, and getting access to real-time Twitter and public web data? Spin up an oracle node on the testnet or to speak to the team, reach out to us here: https://www.masa.ai/contact-us or join us on Discord here.

2. Decentralizing LLM Infrastructure: “LLM-as-a-Service” Powered by Decentralized Node Workers

Developers can then get going in a matter of minutes with Masa’s decentralized and uncensored LLM compute layer. Masa’s decentralized AI network empowers Oracle Node Workers to run a wide variety of open-source LLMs, contributing their unused compute resources (CPU and GPU) to fulfill model inference requests made by users and developers.

Oracle Node Workers can serve any LLM from an extensive array of open-source LLMs, including cutting-edge models like Llama 2, gemma, mixtral, and llama2-uncensored, to developers on the network. These models are readily available on platforms like Hugging Face, allowing node workers to easily download and deploy them on their Oracle Node Workers.

Oracle node workers who provide data and compute to the network stake MASA, run infrastructure, and get paid in MASA tokens and transaction fees from developers accessing data and querying LLMs on the network. Developers can save a significant amount of hosting costs by using Masa’s LLM infrastructure powered by a decentralized network of node workers. This decentralized actor-based model enables the network to support an impressive 3.7 million messages per second, ensuring high scalability and efficient request fulfillment.

How to engage: Masa offers exciting opportunities for developers and oracle node workers to contribute to the decentralized AI ecosystem. Dive into our open-source Oracle Node project on GitHub, and check out our developer docs where you learn how to spin up a node and access data. For oracle node workers who want to contribute compute to the network you can run a Twitter Worker or Web Scraper Worker node.

Masa is committed to democratizing access to the critical resources driving competitive advantages in AI: proprietary and open source data and decentralized LLMs. By providing developers with a unique and constantly expanding dataset, Masa is fostering a new wave of AI innovation, enabling the creation of hyper-personalized AI agents, assistants, and applications that stand out in an increasingly crowded landscape.

Masa Commits $100,000 MASA Tokens to Decentralized AI Developer Grant and Announces “Genesis Sprint” for AI Agent Developers

Masa is thrilled to announce a substantial commitment of $100,000 in MASA Tokens to support and fuel our growing developer ecosystem. This funding initiative aims to encourage innovation and drive the development of groundbreaking AI projects that leverage Masa’s decentralized AI data and LLM stack. In the coming months, we will announce strategic partners who will jointly support the Masa Decentralized AI Grant & Ecosystem.

Developers are invited to apply for our Developer Grants Program, which offers a total of $100,000 in MASA tokens to fund pioneering AI projects. This grant program provides a fantastic opportunity for developers to access the necessary resources and support to bring their creative AI ideas to life. Apply For The Grant Program Here.

From April 29 to May 13, we are running a “Genesis Sprint” for AI Agent Developers, with a $10,000 USDT Prize Pool. Join the virtual sprint and win prizes, while building groundbreaking apps and AI agents powered by Masa’s data and model. Engage with our vibrant developer community on Discord to connect, collaborate, and stay updated on the latest developments in decentralized AI. Apply for the “Genesis Sprint” Here and make sure you submit your project to our masa-ai-examples in GitHub.

Masa is Founding Member of ReAI

Masa is proud to be a founding member of ReAI, an initiative that brings together researchers, operators, and developers to explore the future of AI and crypto technology. ReAI serves as a hub for gathering and sharing relevant information, fostering active communication and collaboration among its impressive lineup of partners, including Pond, Masa, Near, Myshell, Ritual, The Graph, Aspecta, Navigate, Udaya, Privasea, OpenZeppelin, and Social Layer, as well as diverse supporting communities.

As a founding member, Masa is committed to driving the conversation forward and contributing to the development of cutting-edge solutions. By leveraging its decentralized AI data and LLM network, Masa will enable researchers and developers within the ReAI community to build and test innovative AI applications powered by decentralized resources. In the coming months, Masa will participate and co-host various developer events, workshops, and talks together with esteemed fellow members of the ReAI community.

Looking Ahead: Masa Decentralized AI Ecosystem in 2024

As we look ahead to 2024, Masa is committed to driving the growth and evolution of our decentralized AI ecosystem. We have ambitious plans to empower AI developers with cutting-edge tools, resources, and opportunities to collaborate and innovate.

1. Enhanced AI Developer Products

In the coming year, we will focus on delivering more advanced and user-friendly products to enable AI developers to build groundbreaking applications effortlessly. Our team is working tirelessly to expand our decentralized AI data offerings, providing developers with even more diverse, structured, and proprietary datasets to fuel their AI models.

We will also continue to improve our open-source LLM infrastructure, ensuring that developers have access to the latest and most powerful language models to integrate into their applications.

2. Global Developer Community Events

Masa recognizes the importance of fostering a vibrant and connected developer community. In 2024, we will host a series of events across the globe to bring together AI developers, enthusiasts, and industry leaders. These events will serve as platforms for knowledge sharing, networking, and showcasing the latest innovations in decentralized AI.

Some of the key events we plan to participate in include:

Consensus in Austin, USA: As one of the largest gatherings of blockchain and crypto professionals, Consensus provides an ideal opportunity for Masa to connect with developers and showcase our decentralized AI ecosystem.
EthCC in Brussels, Belgium: Masa is excited to host an in-person AI Hackathon at EthCC in Paris in 2024, with an exciting prize pool and in partnership with pioneers in the decentralized AI space. Participants will leverage Masa’s decentralized data and LLM network to build innovative AI applications, agents, and experiences. The event will feature workshops, panel discussions, and mentorship sessions led by industry experts. Register here.
Korean Blockchain Week in Seoul, Korea: With a thriving blockchain and AI community, Korea is a strategic market for Masa. We will actively participate in Korean Blockchain Week to engage with local developers and explore partnerships.
Token2049 in Singapore: Token2049 attracts thousands of attendees from the blockchain and crypto space. Masa will leverage this event to highlight the potential of decentralized AI and forge collaborations with key players in the industry.
DevCon in Bangkok, Thailand & Southeast Asia Region: DevCon brings together developers from various domains, including AI and blockchain. Masa plans to host an in-person AI hackathon at DevCon in Thailand, with an exciting prize pool and in partnership with pioneers in the decentralized AI space.

3. Expanded Partner Ecosystem

In 2024, we will actively seek out and onboard new partners into the Masa Decentralized AI Developer Ecosystem — across both web2 and web3. By collaborating with a diverse range of AI developers, startups, and established companies, we aim to accelerate innovation and unlock new use cases for decentralized AI.

4. Research and Development

Masa is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of decentralized AI. In 2024, we will invest heavily in research and development to explore new frontiers in AI, such as federated learning, privacy-preserving AI, and explainable AI. By staying at the forefront of technological advancements, we aim to provide our developer community with the most advanced tools and frameworks to build the next generation of AI applications.

As we embark on this exciting journey, we invite AI developers, enthusiasts, and visionaries to join us in shaping the future of decentralized AI. Together, we can unlock the true potential of AI, driving innovation, empowering individuals, and creating a more inclusive and equitable AI ecosystem.

Stay connected with Masa through our developer hub, GitHub repository, and Discord community. We look forward to collaborating with you and witnessing the incredible applications that will emerge from the Masa Decentralized AI Ecosystem in 2024 and beyond.