We're excited to announce our investment in Pluralis Research, advancing "Actually Open AI" through decentralized, collaborative model training. @usv and @coinfund-io co-led the $7.6M seed round, with @variant, Topology, and others participating

more thoughts:

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We're excited to announce our investment in Pluralis Research, advancing "Actually Open AI" through decentralized, collaborative model training. @usv and @coinfund-io co-led the $7.6M seed round, with @variant, Topology, and others participating

more thoughts: https://blog.usv.com/pluralis-towards-actually-open-ai

so, the model weights end up being private and owned by the protocol, and this gives us security with open ownership (and justifies the massive training investment), is that the way to think about it?