Summary
Theta labs just posted huge news, they’re teaming up with the University Oregon’s Ai research hub, Distopia lab in a multi year collab. They made this official in a blog post on October 29. They even shared that Distopia’s very own Assistant Professor, Suyash Gupta, will be taking the charge.
Theta labs, known for its crypto platform Theta Network has just announced teaming up with University Oregon for further AI advancements. Theta Network is a decentralized video streaming platform backed by blockchain technology. Its main concern is to change the way video contents are shared and monetized by using peer to peer network and reduce the costs of streaming other applications, like decentralized storage and delivery.
On a blog post published on October 29, Theta Labs officially revealed their collaboration with Oregon University and shared that the project will be led by none other than Distopia’s own Assistant Professor Suyash Gupta. EdgeCloud, a hybrid cloud computing platform for AI, video, rendering and gaming is going to be used in the University’s AI model training department. Theta announced the launch of the solution in February, while phase one of the platform went live in May.
The University of Oregon is also a well known and one of the leading institutions in the United States. It focuses on distributed systems like blockchain, and federated learning. Contribution from Dr. Gupta has already advanced the research at the intersection of AI and blockchain as per the reports made by Theta Labs.
Theta network has been collaborating with such institution back to back. Just recently it also made a huge collab with Korea University and now this. It really shows how serious Theta Labs is on advancing AI. Additionally, cryptocurrency’s funding potential provides a key incentive for ambitious academic projects. Partnering with projects like Theta Network also benefits academic institutions by enabling them to compete with heavily funded commercial AI labs.