Web3 AI Daily Review (2024/8/1)

1. Market Analysis

In the past 24 hours, the AI US stock sector rose by 2.42%, the Web3 AI sector fell by 3.95%, and Bitcoin dropped by 3.03% during the same period.

2. Project Tracking

1. Leading Stocks Performance

Affected by the broader market, today the top ten leading stocks in the industry saw significant declines, with ARKM experiencing the largest drop at -7.37%, while NOS's decline narrowed compared to yesterday.

Among them: The Worldcoin Foundation launched World ID verification in Austria, enhancing the opportunity for Europeans to obtain proof of humanness.

2. Hot Stocks

Today's hot stocks are AIT Protocol, Render, and Bittensor, with Laika AI, Agoras, and Aegis Ai leading the gains.
Among them: Laika AI is a revolutionary browser extension that provides users with insights into various aspects of the crypto space, such as eFi research and token contract analysis, by leveraging AI and blockchain data; while Agoras' Tau is a logical AI engine capable of creating software and possessing fully mechanized reasoning abilities, representing one of the largest capability expansions in software history.

3. Smart Money Trends
In the past 24 hours, the projects with the most inflow from smart money are DEAI, $SWIPES, VAI, GROK, and QF; the most outflow is from TURBO, ATH, WLD, ZAPI, and OLM.

The top ten projects in this issue's smart money holdings list are GNUS, Lexi, SAGE, HashAI, ENQAI, KIBSHI, DEAI, NEURAL, QF, and basedAI.

3. Industry News

1. AI Industry

l OpenAI expresses support for three Senate bills to boost US AI policy
Anna Makanju, Vice President of Global Affairs at OpenAI, stated that OpenAI fully supports the three bills regarding AI safety and accessibility proposed by the US Senate. Among them, OpenAI particularly emphasizes the "AI Future Innovation Act," which will establish the US AI Safety Research Institute, a federal agency that sets standards and guidelines for AI models. Additionally, OpenAI also supports the "CREATE AI Act" and the "NSFAI Education Act," which provide federal scholarships for AI research and establish AI educational resources within universities and K-12 education systems. Anna Makanju stated, "We have always firmly supported the mission of this institute, which guides the US government in ensuring the safe development and deployment of cutting-edge AI systems."

l NVIDIA releases new robotics development tools, stock price surges nearly 13%
On August 1, NVIDIA announced a series of new robotics development tools at the SIGGRAPH conference. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang pointed out that we are entering the "third wave" of AI, where robotics will be a core element. NVIDIA introduced a visual training environment called "NIM Microservices," which empowers generative AI models to perceive and understand 3D environments like ChatGPT. Additionally, NVIDIA launched the cloud coordination system "OSMO," aimed at helping developers efficiently manage numerous models and distributed hardware resources, and showcased a new remote training system. As a result of these positive developments, NVIDIA's market value surged over 12% on the same day, currently approaching $3 trillion, potentially surpassing Microsoft and Apple to become one of the highest-valued companies globally.

2. Web3 AI

l Rug.AI co-founder Joe Ayoub announces withdrawal from daily operations due to stock dispute
Joe Ayoub, co-founder of the AI on-chain security platform Rug.AI, announced his exit from daily operations. He stated that he resigned from a leading global institution a year ago to co-found Rug.AI with friends, but he still does not hold any shares. As he does not believe there was an agreement to share equity, Ayoub decided to take legal action to claim his shares. Ayoub also mentioned that he currently has no actual control over Rug.AI and cannot act in the interests of users, investors, and employees.
Rug.AI is an AI security platform dedicated to providing an end-to-end on-chain security solution, which announced the completion of a $1.1 million Pre-Seed round of financing in March last year, led by No Limit Holdings, with participation from Mask Network, Builder Capital, Formless Capital, and angel investors like Andrej Radonjic.
l AI company Perplexity partners with publishers to launch revenue-sharing program
According to official information, the AI startup Perplexity has launched the "Publishers' Program," aimed at supporting media organizations and online creators. The first batch of partners in the program includes several well-known media outlets, such as TIME, Der Spiegel, Fortune, Entrepreneur, The Texas Tribune, and WordPress.com. The core components of the program include:

1. Revenue-sharing mechanism: By integrating relevant question features and introducing advertisements, when users reference publishers' content, Perplexity will share revenue with the publishers, ensuring they receive fair economic returns.

2. API access: All partners can access the API provided by Perplexity for free, allowing them to build personalized answering engines on their own websites, with content references limited to the publisher's own resources, ensuring the uniqueness and accuracy of the content.

3. Enterprise Pro version support: Perplexity provides all employees of these partners with a one-year free usage of the Perplexity Enterprise Pro version, to help publisher teams work more efficiently and accurately in research and fact-checking tasks. Additionally, Perplexity announced a deep collaboration with ScalePost.ai to jointly provide advanced AI analytics services for partners and actively explore other potential forms of collaboration in the future to promote innovation and development in the media industry.