Nous Research выходит на новый уровень: $50 млн инвестиций в децентрализованный ИИ на Solana

cryptonews.ruPublished on 2024-02-28Last updated on 2025-04-28

Стартап Nous Research на раунде серии A привлек $50 миллионов под крылом венчурного гиганта Paradigm. Эта сделка — одна из самых крупных на пересечении блокчейна и искусственного интеллекта.

Как пишет Fortune 25 апреля, теперь Nous оценён в миллиард долларов по токенам. До этого проект уже собрал $20 миллионов в посевных раундах от Distributed Global, North Island Ventures и Delphi Digital.

Запустившись в 2022 году, Nous только сейчас полноценно выходит на свет, бросая силы на разработку открытых ИИ-моделей через децентрализованную инфраструктуру.

Особенность проекта в том, что он задействует блокчейн Solana, чтобы собрать со всего мира вычислительные мощности и подстегнуть интерес участников, готовых внести свой вклад в общее дело. В итоге — прямая конкуренция централизованным гигантам вроде OpenAI и DeepSeek.

Проект основали спецы в области ИИ, включая таких ребят, как Дидерик Кингма (соавтор алгоритма оптимизации Adam). В отличие от других крипто-ИИ проектов, Nous не пытается вытащить всё на своих дата-центрах.

Блокчейн здесь управляет безопасностью: помогает не скатиться в хаос с данными и заодно щедро мотивирует участников через токены. Среди защитных механизмов — толерантность к византийским сбоям, что помогает быстро устранять баги.

Как сказал сооснователь Каран Малхотра в интервью Fortune: «Мы изначально нацелились на создание ИИ, который будет реально служить миру».

По данным репорта, команда из 20 человек собирается влить большую часть новых средств в расширение вычислительных мощностей и прокачку исследований.

В декабре 2024-го Nous рассказывал Venture Beat, что предобучает децентрализованную LLM-модель с 15 миллиардами параметров — всё в прямом эфире, чтобы было видно, кто чего стоит.

Поддержка со стороны Paradigm ясно даёт понять: крупные криптофонды всё активней заходят в ИИ-нишу.

Партнёр Paradigm Арджун Балажи отметил: «Наш подход, открытый и ориентированный на комьюнити, чётко контрастирует с закрытыми моделями крупных лабораторий».

Paradigm — одна из самых крутых и результативных венчурных контор в криптомире.

В марте аналитики Kaito AI подвели итоги: за прошлый год Paradigm выдала лучший перформанс среди венчурных криптофондов11,80%, обогнав такие компаний, как Alliance (10,64%), Dragonfly (8,32%), a16z (6,94%) и Multicoin Capital (5,86%).

Проект основали бывший топ Coinbase Фред Эрсам и экс-партнёр Sequoia Мэтт Хуанг. Ребята ещё в начале умело выцепляли перспективные проекты: их портфель включает такие активы, как Uniswap (UNI), dYdX, а также масштабные вложения в решения для масштабирования Ethereum — например, Optimism.

Недавно Paradigm также инвестировал $255 миллионов в StarkNet — один из лидеров по технологиям zk-rollup.

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