According to TechFlow, on October 16, the NEAR Foundation and Delphi Labs announced the joint launch of the AI Accelerator Program and announced the first batch of selected projects. The program aims to support and rapidly expand projects with high potential at the intersection of AI and Web3. Selected projects will receive comprehensive support, including technical guidance, funding opportunities, and access to the NEAR and Delphi expert networks. Each team will also receive $50,000 in computing credits from computing partner Aethir to ensure that they have the computing resources needed to develop and deploy resource-intensive AI models.
The first batch of selected projects include:
Hyperspace: Building a decentralized peer-to-peer AI network that has attracted over 7,000 unique nodes.
Almanak: Provides an end-to-end agent building, testing, training, optimization and deployment platform for DeFi. Its agents already manage significant assets for institutional partners.
Questflow: Developing a decentralized network that coordinates multi-agent AI automation, focusing on the SEO market.
Q Star Labs: Develops a decentralized generative AI protocol for creating interactive autonomous AI influencers at scale, with over 27,000 followers for its AI influencers.
ZettaBlock: Laying the foundation for open and trustless AI development, providing infrastructure to unify on-chain and off-chain data.
Magic: Redefines the use of private data in AI, allowing companies and developers to train AI models using private data while protecting data integrity and privacy.
dFusion: Building a consensus-driven framework for curating and validating high-quality data to ensure the accuracy and trustworthiness of AI model training data.
Peri Labs: Building an open marketplace to power optimized AI models using underutilized computing resources on billions of consumer devices.
