Jason Zhao
@jasonjzhao
cofounder @storyprotocol, prev @googledeepmind, philosophy & CS @stanford
Data is the bottleneck for the next wave of AI foundation models across science, robotics, and more. Today, we're excited to reveal Poseidon: Backed by $15m from a16z crypto, Poseidon is a Story-incubated project for collecting & licensing training data at scale.
AI is moving beyond the browser and into the real world. The bottleneck? Data. Today we’re announcing a $15M seed round led by @a16zcrypto to build infra that collects, curates, and licenses high-quality data for physical AI. Incubated by and built on @StoryProtocol.
From Hollywood to your shopping cart, IP is mainstream. Congrats to our ecosystem project @ABLO_Official. The custom merch platform lets anyone design and sell products globally, with IP protection and royalties powered by Story. wbd.com/news/warner-br…
NEW ESSAY: "Dispatches from India" A year ago I was living in New Delhi, India 🇮🇳. I traveled across 10 states and 30 cities+villages writing for The Economist, including a cover story on the economy Since then I’ve been chewing on how to capture what I learned It still…
LLMs are cheap. Compute is plentiful. Data is the new bottleneck. blockworks.co/news/poseidon-…
Excited to announce we’re leading a $15M seed round in Poseidon, which was incubated by @StoryProtocol and is building a decentralized data layer to coordinate supply and demand for AI training data. The first generation of AI foundation models were trained on data that seemed…
Excited to share on @BloombergTV the upcoming launch of @psdnai (Poseidon AI), incubated by Story and building on top of Story Blockchain.
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The next wave of AI won't just live in your browser. And the frontier isn't compute or models. Coming soon – stay tuned.
Honored to welcome Sandeep as our Chief AI Officer! Sandeep’s research during his Stanford PhD and now his professorship at UT Austin have focused on data collection and AI training in distributed environments, which is exactly what Story is focused on in its next chapter.
I’ve spent my career chasing one question: How do we gather the right data to make AI work in the real world? From Stanford labs to UT Austin classrooms, I searched everywhere. The answer isn’t another AI lab, but a blockchain built to treat data as IP. That’s why I am joining…
Excited to support @mbrendan1 & the Cosmos team! Like the printing press and internet, AI will fundamentally transform our relationship with information. Cosmos is training philosopher-builders that can bridge the gap between theory and praxis at this critical inflection point.
Every builder's first duty is philosophical: to decide what they should build for. AI is beginning to decide what ideas reach your mind—your next action, your next job, your next relationship. It will tempt you to outsource your thinking in ways you’ve never been tempted before.…
Mainnet was just the start. If the first chapter of Story was about setting technological foundations, the next chapter is about reaching users at scale. Scaling to support scarce, hard-to-scrape data sources for AI training. Scaling to onramp the biggest IPs. Scaling licensing…
Chapter 2 starts today. AI's next leap isn't about bigger models. It's about IP and its most valuable category: Real-world Data. Story is building the AI-native infrastructure for this $70T IP economy. Here’s what’s ahead ↓
Story and World partner to verify IP ownership onchain amid proliferation of AI-generated content theblock.co/post/361664/st…
In today's newsletter I break down why @StoryProtocol is adding World ID (@worldcoin) and how Tools for Humanity plans to ultimately monetize World ID. Plus, expect a lot more than just art on Story's IP Portal. “We're definitely going to see humans scaling themselves,”…
In a digital landscape shaped by AI, creators need better tools to prove ownership and maintain creative rights. @StoryProtocol and World are partnering to bring verified human ownership of IP onchain with World ID, adding a trusted layer to the future of digital content.
Provable provenance!
We're working with @worldcoin to unlock a new era of human creativity, accelerated by AI. ➤ World proves you're human. ➤ Story helps you scale your IP with AI. Together, we're building a world where your IP is provably human, programmable, and built to scale with AI tools.
Exciting few weeks ahead for Story. The team has been heads down this summer - excited to share some of the things that we've been working on!
The Story Buildathon had over 800+ builders participate and 118 total projects submitted. SO many new, cool ideas being explored around programmable IP - it kinda feels like the early ethereum days. See you at demo day🫡
800+ Builders. 118 Submissions. 1 Insane Month. Surreal World Assets Buildathon wraps this Thursday with Demo Day, 12:30PM ET. Winners of each track will pitch to investors and show off their projects. Surrealists, now's your time to shine. RSVP: lu.ma/q7uj771r
We are glad to be able to participate in it and support the development of Story ecosystem. Let's build together ！！
Time to build the future. We're partnering with @OKX_Ventures to launch a $10M fund to back founders unlocking IP as the world’s most important financial primitive in the age of AI. Capital and operational support to take teams from prototype to product. Details ↴
Time to build the future. We're partnering with @OKX_Ventures to launch a $10M fund to back founders unlocking IP as the world’s most important financial primitive in the age of AI. Capital and operational support to take teams from prototype to product. Details ↴