San Francisco, California, August 27th, 2024,
Chainwire
Today Masa, a decentralized AI network where people
earn by contributing data, announces that its Subnet 42 is now
fully integrated into Bittensor’s neural network
and is live on mainnet. The Masa Bittensor Subnet will be joined by
10+ Genesis Validator Partners including Foundry, Openτensor Foundaτion,
τaosτaτs, Datura, RoundTable21, PRvalidator, Tensorplex Labs,
Rizzo, Republic, Nocturnal Labs,
Luganodes, Animoca, DSRV, Crypto Times, and InfStone. Masa’s AI
data subnet, reached its full miner capacity in the first week of
testnet, and was over capacity by 192% during its 6-week
incentivized testnet.
Masa’s launch of its Subnet on Bittesnor’s mainnet is the next
step in advancing its mission to supercharge open and
permissionless AI data aggregation, transformation, and access. The
Subnet is powered by a competitive global network of miners
contributing data from diverse data sources, which is verified for
accuracy by validators, and then used by AI developers to train
generalized and specialized artificial intelligence. Together, this
empowers a world of Fair AI powered by the
people, where AI developers can build anything, anywhere with the
world’s data.
Masa’s Subnet brings a massive volume of real-time and static
(indexed), structured, annotated, and vectorized data to the
Bittensor ecosystem, analyzing nearly 20 billion data points daily
spanning:
- Twitter: 350M tweets across 586M monthly active users
- Discord: 4B messages across 150M monthly active users
- Telegram: 15B messages across 900M monthly active users
- Web pages: 250k new websites launched indexed
- Podcasts: 120k new podcast episodes
- YouTube: 720k hours of new video content uploaded (equaling
about 500 days of content every 24 hours)
This highlights the vast data Masa's subnet process, empowering
developers to build innovative AI applications with real-time data
from a variety of sources critical for AI development. The Masa
Bittensor Subnet Mainnet offers developers a cost-effective
approach to accelerating AI development, powered by permissionless
data access..
Masa’s subnet also introduces a new MASA-TAO dual-token
incentive mechanism to participating miners and validators. Using a
competitive game-theoretical framework, miners and validators are
rewarded with both MASA and TAO emissions, incentivizing
high-performing contributions. Anyone, anywhere in the world with
high-speed internet can participate on Subnet 42.
The move is a significant milestone following Masa’s launch of
an incentivized testnet
for its AI Data Subnet on Bittensor, in partnership with CoinList at the beginning of July 2024. The
incentivized testnet was a success, reaching its full capacity of
256 miners in the first week of operation in which over 750 miners
competed for testnet slots, increasing Masa’s capacity to serve 900
million tweets per month to developers.
"The launch of Masa's Bittensor Subnet is critical for
the scaling and adoption of decentralized AI," said Brendan
Playford, Co-founder of Masa. "Just as Ethereum revolutionized
smart contracts, Masa is set to transform the AI landscape by
becoming the go-to data layer for both decentralized AI and the
entire web2 AI ecosystem. With our subnet now live, Masa is
bringing billions of rows of real-time, on-demand, and indexed
data. By providing a decentralized network for AI data aggregation.
preprocessing, and access, Masa is laying the foundation for a new
era of Fair AI. Masa's integration into the Bittensor ecosystem is
our commitment to building an AI future that's open, equitable, and
truly powered by the people. This makes data accessible anywhere in
the world by any developer building AI."
Developers can use the
Masa SDK to easily scrape and structure real-time data directly
from the Masa Bittensor Subnet API, enabling advanced RAG
applications. For instance, if a user is building a prediction
market agent to forecast crypto trends, they can leverage live
tweets, Discord chats, YouTube KOL playlists, and Telegram groups
to enhance their forecasting algorithm and create vector embeddings
for RAG tooling. This allows the AI model to detect spikes in
mentions or key trends, such as a celebrity endorsement, allowing
the program to provide users with immediate insights and
alerts.
Additionally, validators on the subnet play a crucial role in
aggregating open-source datasets from these data sources. They
curate, process, and publish these datasets to the Masa
Foundation's Hugging Face collections.
This ensures a rich, diverse, and continuously updated repository
of AI-ready data, accessible to developers and researchers that
span billions of rows of continuously growing data.
Masa has raised $18 million from leading investors such as DCG,
Anagram, Animoca, and Republic Digital. In March 2024, Masa
completed its viral 17-minute CoinList
Sale, followed by the launch of its token generation event in
April. Meanwhile, Bittensor has amassed a $10 billion AI ecosystem
since its launch in March 2023, hosting validators such as DCG
subsidiary Foundry and Polychain.
About Masa
Masa is a decentralized AI network, where people are
contributing data. AI developers can build anything, anywhere with
the world’s data. Users can join their
mission to create Fair AI, powered by the people.
Users can join Masa’s Bittensor Subnet 42 as a miner or validator. For additional
information, please visit Masa’s website or follow
Masa on X.
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Serotonin
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