I’m thrilled to announce our seed investment in Pluralis Research, which is building a decentralized AI training protocol. 

We are laser focused at investing in projects that use crypto ownership to solve coordination problems. Pluralis is a bullseye on that thesis, using ownership to solve the "resource problem" of training foundational AI models that are truly open.

We couldn't be more excited to support Alex and the rest of the team.

Full post here: https://blog.variant.fund/investing-in-pluralis-research

The intersection of crypto x AI is unique in crypto in that there is a steady stream of very high quality AI talent, flowing from big tech, who are learning crypto because they have discovered it is the *only* way to solve the distributed resource problem, which unlocks truly open AI. 

Pluralis is one of those cracked teams (5x ML phds from Amazon) who are here to take a real swing a decentralized training of foundation models, owned by users.