Inventory of the latest financing projects of the "AI+Web3" concept
Original Author: wesely
AI is the foreseeable next-generation technology highland. With the help of ChatGPT in early 2023, its popularity quickly swept the entire technology circle and triggered an "arms race" betting on AI. Microsoft invested heavily in OpenAI, Google issued an enterprise-level emergency warning, launched its own search chat robot Bard in response, and a number of AI concept companies such as Databricks, Cruise, and Grammarly were valued at more than 10 billion U.S. dollars. In addition to competition at multiple levels from software to underlying algorithms, and hardware chips, it can be said that the beginning of 2023 is full of "gunpowder".
The versatility of AI draws a more grand application scenario for it, and the combination with biotechnology, computer vision, language processing, Web3, logistics, agricultural technology, etc., can show a sci-fi-like Imagine. According to PwC's estimates, driven by AI in the future, by 2030, AI will contribute US$15.7 trillion to the world economy, accumulatively driving global GDP growth by 14%. This article mainly focuses on the field of AI+Web3, looking for projects with this concept from the latest financing projects in 2023 to help you find Alpha.
Botto
Investment institution: Variant Fund
Funding Amount: Undisclosed
Botto is a generative art community governed through a DAO. The Botto engine uses a variety of models such as Stable Diffusion, VQGAN + CLIP, and GPT-3 to generate artistic images based on text. Every week, 350 images will be pre-selected according to the community's different artistic tendencies, aesthetic styles and other factors, and presented to the community for voting , minting the most popular images into NFTs, and eventually auctioning them off on SuperRare, earning revenue and training the Botto engine. At present, participating in community governance requires a certain Token or Pass card.
In essence, Botto is a combination of AI-generated art NFT and DAO governance. It combines the concept of AI, as well as NFT, DAO and token economics. Whether it can maintain the long-term and stable operation of the community is also a question Test the wisdom of the governor.
Mawari
Investors: Blockchange Ventures, Decasonic, Accord Ventures, Abies Ventures, etc.
Funding amount: $6.5 million / seed round
Currently, Mawari is building a product called Mawari Network: a decentralized 3D and XR content delivery platform designed based on Web3 principles, and also a distributed content delivery and revenue sharing network. It aims to meet the problems of real-time 3D rendering and streaming media transmission congestion through technologies such as compression, AI machine learning, and blockchain, so as to realize the 3D metaverse and further expand to XR devices. It is hoped that Mawari will become Akamai in the metaverse ( world-renowned content delivery network service provider).
As far as its development vision is concerned, it can be said to be very grand, and the technical difficulties it faces are also not small. However, due to the extremely limited information displayed on the project's official website, if you want to make a more comprehensive evaluation of the project, you need to wait for the project party to announce more details. much information.
Addressable
Investors: Viola Ventures, Fabric Ventures, Mensch Capital, NorthIslandVC
Funding amount: $7.5 million / seed round
Addressable is a Web3 marketing company that helps Web3 marketers collect data from social media accounts and wallets, and match information based on similarity to build more accurate portraits of target audiences. In view of the anonymity of behavior on the current blockchain, Addressable connects the anonymous blockchain audience with the corresponding social media to solve the problem of Web3 growth today. It provides a SaaS platform that enables Web3 marketers to provide their audience with send Message. Currently, Addressable only tracks user data on Ethereum, and the Web2 platform is mainly Twitter, and the product is still in the Demo stage.
Plai Labs
Investment institution: a16z
Funding amount: $32 million seed round
Plai Labs is positioned as a Web3 and AI social platform. The two founders, Chris DeWolfe and Aber Whitcomb, were the founders of the social media platform MySpace and the game studio Jam City. Both are serial entrepreneurs. They plan to use AI and web3 to build the next generation of social platforms for users to play and communicate together , combat, trade and adventure.
And Champions Ascension is the first multiplayer online role-playing game launched by Plai Labs. The game is based on the legend of Masina, allowing players to take their pets to roam in the metaverse to participate in activities. In addition, Plai Labs is also building an AI protocol platform that will help handle everything from user-generated content (UGC) to matching to 2D to 3D asset rendering.
Trusta labs
Investors: SevenX Ventures, Vision Plus, HashKey, etc.
Funding Amount: $3M +
Trusta labs is an on-chain data analysis company. Its core product is TrustScan, which bridges the gap between the original data on the chain and the need to gain insight into the characteristics of DID reputation, and uses AI technology as the engine to provide depth for the reputation of DID subjects in the Web3 world Analytics and assessments covering Sybil attacks, fraud risk, credit scoring, and more. According to its official website, TrustScan has detected more than 1 million sybil addresses.
Creatora
Investment institution: a16z
Financing amount: 10 million A round
Creatora is a metaverse project for creators, with a metaverse engine for user-generated content (UGC), allowing creators to create, distribute and metaverse games. Any creation can be monetized, which blurs the boundaries between creators and consumers, creating a metaverse space where everything can be MetaFi.
According to its official disclosure, Createra has accumulated nearly 15 million Generation Z users and 500,000 creators in Asia, and its development focus is mainly on Generation Z. In the project, Genesis land is the main core asset, which will determine Distribution of subsequent rewards/assets and exposure opportunities on Createra.
Sortium
Investment institution: Arca
Funding amount: $7.75 million / seed round
Sortium is an entertainment tech company combining AI and Web3. Sortium focuses on the construction of technical frameworks to help customers understand generative AI systems, blockchains, and dynamic economic systems, etc., and in realizing the use of application scenarios, Sortium has launched a P2E game called CosmoGene. In the CosmoGene game, through AI Supported by virtual DNA, players can create unique experiences based on their genes.
From the above description, AI+Web3 start-up projects are mostly weak AI projects, and the depth of application integration is not high. In addition, application scenarios are mainly concentrated in several core areas such as games, NFT and on-chain data analysis. We It is expected that Web3 will have a more in-depth combination with AI, such as the emergence of smart protocols, smart DApps, and even smart blockchains.
