New piece: Why (good) AI needs crypto.

TLDR: Closed AI is anti-competitive. Open source AI hits a “resource problem” (huge compute/data costs). Crypto fixes this by incentivizing resource contributions via ownership—unlocking bigger models & faster innovation.
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New piece: Why (good) AI needs crypto.

TLDR: Closed AI is anti-competitive. Open source AI hits a “resource problem” (huge compute/data costs). Crypto fixes this by incentivizing resource contributions via ownership—unlocking bigger models & faster innovation.
🔗👇

https://variant.fund/articles/why-good-ai-needs-crypto/

GC and Investment Partner @variant | ex software engineer/@ycombinator founder, attorney Cravath | casts are not legal advice | I am not your lawyer

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good read! specifically enjoyed the btc example in terms of resource constraints. also didn't know about pluralis, def need to dive deeper there

footnote #5 is also a good point, didn't think about it that way

AI & crypto definitely counterbalances each other well. 🤖🔗