Been watching Grass lately — one thing really clicked for me: as AI gets bigger, just *getting to* the open web becomes a whole business in itself.
More sites are throwing up anti-bot walls everywhere. Cloud IPs? Blocked. VPN traffic? Filtered hard. Meanwhile AI labs are starving for fresh public data.
Grass basically uses distributed residential internet connections — real home IPs — to help AI companies scrape publicly available stuff without getting shut out.
Seems niche now, but think about it: the more these models scale, the more they need constantly updated data. And if half the web blocks you by default… suddenly that "access layer" isn't just nice to have. It's infrastructure.
Kinda wild how the bottleneck isn't compute or even data itself anymore — it's just being able to *see* the data in the first place.
More sites are throwing up anti-bot walls everywhere. Cloud IPs? Blocked. VPN traffic? Filtered hard. Meanwhile AI labs are starving for fresh public data.
Grass basically uses distributed residential internet connections — real home IPs — to help AI companies scrape publicly available stuff without getting shut out.
Seems niche now, but think about it: the more these models scale, the more they need constantly updated data. And if half the web blocks you by default… suddenly that "access layer" isn't just nice to have. It's infrastructure.
Kinda wild how the bottleneck isn't compute or even data itself anymore — it's just being able to *see* the data in the first place.