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AI is making significant strides in penetrating various markets. However, developers often face challenges in receiving fair compensation for their contributions. Nevermined?steps in as an open-source software solution that empowers?AI?builders to monetize their?GPTs?and applications intelligently, filling the compensation gap in the?AI?industry. ?Revolutionizing?AI?Payments: Nevermined simplifies the payment model by allowing?AI?builders to set pricing structures and transforming commerce from peer-to-peer (P2P) to?AI-to-AI?interactions. ?Smart Subscriptions for Control: Nevermined's Smart Subscriptions feature provides?AI?builders with control over user access to their?AI?services: Time-Based Access:?Define subscription durations like monthly, weekly, daily, or hourly. Request-Based Access:?Regulate user requests by assigning credits per request. ?Real-World Example: Imagine?Lea, a developer facing payment challenges with?LoveGPT?due to high demand. By transitioning to a $4 per month pricing model via a payment gateway,?Lea?tries to address these issues. However, pricing without accurate user consumption tracking remains a challenge. ?Solution: Nevermined's Smart Subscriptions allow?Lea?to pre-sell credits and deduct them based on user requests, ensuring upfront payments and preventing over-usage concerns. Through the Nevermined dashboard,?AI?builders gain also insights into user interactions, enabling them to optimize?AI?models for specific needs and refine pricing strategies. They offer a streamlined approach for?AI?builders to receive compensation for their services, fostering a sustainable ecosystem for?AI?developers. Explore more about the Nevermined app for?AI?monetization on the link below https://nevermined.app/en

Over the past few months, NEAR has witnessed a remarkable rise in user adoption and transaction volume. As the smooth operation of the blockchain is vital for the growth of projects, the NEAR Foundation made a special announcement regarding the launch of the infrastructure committee, with $4 million in funding last week. The mission is to solidify and develop NEAR’s key infrastructure, which includes: ? RPC nodes ? Relayers ? Indexers ? Bridges ? Wallets ? Load balancers ? Oracles Part of the plan also aims at easing reporting and fixing of incidents and outages, as well as ensuring a correct listing of NEAR on all DEX tools. The committee is composed of ecosystem leaders and plans to decentralize decision-making. They focus on proposals designed to meet important ecosystem needs. Close to $2 million has already been allocated to these proposals: ? Jutsu IDE infrastructure implementation (AI development environment) ? Fastnear infrastructure services (new RPC nodes and custom endpoints) ? Aurora Labs Web 3.0 Wallet Support Services ? The building of a Treasury App for use by governing committees ? An audit of the Ledger integrations For those who wish to propose or submit a project, here is the guide for the funding process: https://lnkd.in/e7MWSMtk The committee calls on the community to openly discuss the proposals: https://lnkd.in/e7MWSMtk For more information: https://t.ly/IfK9l

Atlas Computing?is a non-profit organization that supports the development, deployment, and adoption of?AI-powered?formal verification?tools to safeguard?AI. ? Why is that important? The software running the modern world is vulnerable. A shift in architecture is crucial to address the escalating threat of?AI?code generators creating vulnerabilities and exploits faster than patches can be deployed.?Atlas Computing?believes these risks can be reduced by moving from?transformer-based models?to ones that focus on producing verified and safe outputs. ?How can we mitigate these potential risks? Atlas Computing?advocates for an architecture that provides quantitative safety properties. ?What does it mean? By implementing?Safeguarded AI, users can specify what they want the?AI?system to do and then provide evidence that the system is actually performing the desired tasks accurately. This way, humans can trust the?AI?system to work properly and focus on other important tasks. ?Securing Power Grid with?AI-Driven Verification For example, consider a city's?power grid, essential for providing electricity to homes and businesses. This?power grid?is at risk of being hacked by malicious actors or facing unexpected failures, potentially leading to widespread blackouts. To enhance the safety and security of such critical infrastructure,?formal verification?(FV) can be deployed. Formal verification rigorously checks that a system behaves as intended. With the help of?AI, it becomes feasible to apply?formal verification?more widely, streamlining the process, making it more cost-effective, and enabling the comprehensive use of?formal verification?techniques to safeguard critical systems like the?power grid?from?cyber threats?and failures. ?? For more, visit: https://atlascomputing.org

Let us introduce you to our latest innovation: Além. Built by Wenderson Pires, this product optimizes the user experience by enabling significantly faster page loading on NEAR's Blockchain Operating System. Além is a web3 JavaScript/TypeScript library that allows you to create Web3 apps on NEAR Protocol's Blockchain Operating System. All components and other resources are transformed into a file understandable by Near VM , allowing you to create your applications in a similar way to React. You can leverage the full power of JSX as Além manages both stateful and stateless components' children, ensuring they are properly processed and understood. Its initial iteration is being implemented on Potlock, and as you can see in the excerpt below, the execution speed is striking. If you're interested in implementing Além and learning more: https://lnkd.in/e2C5h4HK"

We're thrilled to have Cameron Dennis join us at #FtCBerkeley this April 13-14! ?? As the CEO of Banyan Collective and a pivotal figure in the NEAR Foundation's ecosystem, Cameron is reshaping the landscape of open-source communities. His innovative work in building and scaling these communities showcases the powerful role of open source in fostering collaboration and driving technological progress. Don't miss out on this chance to connect with a leader in community building and open-source innovation. Register now: https://lu.ma/FtCSF2024? #FundingTheCommons

The Autonomous Agent Online Hackathon is officially over! With over 400 registrations and 40 submissions we're excited to announce the winners! Thank all of our amazing sponsors and bounty partners who made this online hackathon and IRL event during ETH Denver possible. We couldn't do it without you !

If you're passionate about expanding technology for community benefits, the Funding the Commons conference is for you. Seize the chance to connect with some of the brightest minds in AI and blockchain technologies.