NFTs
What is grass AI? The data layer of AI
What is grass?
Developed as the first product of Wynd LaboratoriesGrass aims to democratize and decentralize Internet resources and ensure fair compensation for everyone.
Through its Chrome extension and mobile app, Grass offers a decentralized residential proxy marketplace, allowing users to leverage their unused bandwidth to gain a share of the web scraping needed to build AI, creating a more robust Internet ecosystem. equitable.
Grass is also developing proprietary datasets and AI models that contribute to the decentralization of AI as a whole, with the goal of making the vast knowledge of the Internet open source and accessible.
Furthermore, Grass aims to play a direct role in analyzing unstructured web data into a format that large language models (LLMs) can train from, making this data accessible through APIs and transforming the Internet into an open source of knowledge. accessible and structured. base.
Grass’ ultimate goal is to become the foundational layer for the decentralization of AI, contributing to the creation of a global, open-source repository of human knowledge.
Source: Grama
How does grass work?
Available through a Chrome extension or mobile app, Grass collects your unused bandwidth and uses it to help power the web scraping needed to AI develop, train and improve.
Crucially, it does this by only leveraging bandwidth you’re not using, meaning you’ll not only be rewarded for being part of the AI ecosystem, but you won’t experience slowdowns in the apps and services you use.
By using Grass, users earn Grass Points. They can be converted into network property, which can then be sold to verified companies for uses such as web scraping and market research using cryptocurrency as a means. Additional payment methods are being explored, such as fiat options via PayPal, gift cards, and the ability to participate in network governance.
Grass takes a firm stance on safety. The app collects basic information such as uptime, IP address connections, sign-up emails, and passwords, but does not access any personal information on users’ devices.
As an example of their scraping prowess and the sheer power of shared bandwidth thus far, the Grass team wiped out the entire blog hosting site Medium in the space of two days, totaling tens of millions of articles and a word count that probably be in the tens of billions.
Source: Grama
What has Grass achieved so far?
Grass entered beta in June 2023 as a Chrome extension and launched a referral program to reward early adopters with additional Grass points.
The Grass Mobile app launched in August 2023, allowing users to earn Grass Points 24/7 – as long as they are connected to WiFi or 4G/5G services.
Rapid growth followed, reaching tens of thousands of signups per day by December 2023. This led to a $3.5 million seed round led by Polychain and Tribe Capital, and including angel investors such as Sami Kassab of OSS Capital and Kunal Goel of crypto research firm Messari.
That same month, Grass partnered with Solana Saga cell phone, launching its Grass Mobile app in the Saga dApp storeand exposing Grass to the Solana ecosystem and the eyes of the crypto world at large.
Fast forward to yesterday (June 19), Grass announced that not only is it expecting an influx of new users soon due to “certain reasons“, but they are also launching the Grass App Store, a variety of free apps – the first being the Grass Community Node – that allows users to help test new features while receiving a multiplier from their Grass score.
The Grass team is currently partnering with AI labs and other projects that believe in their cause, and are looking to develop applications beyond AI training, such as market analysis tools, advertising optimization tools, financial insights tools and a variety of other applications. for industries where data-driven decision-making can be improved by access to the public data that AI provides.
Source: GigaBuds
What is GigaBuds?
Last week, according to industry sources, Grass announced plans for an NFT collection for a small group of his most loyal and long-time supporters as a token of his appreciation – ahead of the proposed token launch, expected to arrive in mid-August.
This echoes a tweet published by the enigmatic GigaBuds account on The account has posted several character-based teasers over the past week, inferring that some sort of character-based, narrative-driven NFT collection is coming to Grass.
Our sources indicate that GigaBuds is the name of this NFT collection, and that these NFTs will play a key role in Grass’ future growth, with a number of benefits and utilities available to holders.
A select group of Grass users were invited to participate in a pre-sale held last week, which sold out within minutes.
Additional information about the GigaBuds is not yet known – although with Grass teasing a major update that will result in a “huge influx of new users soon”, we believe it won’t be long before everything is revealed.