ChainCatcher news, Primitive Ventures investor Marco Manoppo shared his experience of missing the hundredfold investment opportunity in Virtuals Protocol on X. Marco reflected that, despite early exposure to the project, he failed to invest in time due to a misjudgment of the trend of combining crypto and AI.He emphasized that the Virtuals team achieved rapid iteration through cost advantages in Southeast Asia and stood out in the market with a pragmatic business orientation. Marco predicts that 2025 will see a surge in the integration of crypto and AI, especially in innovations related to AI agent tokenization, consumer applications, and payment sectors.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Web3 AI startup Sapien has completed a $5 million seed funding round, with participation from Primitive Ventures, Animoca, Ravikant Capital, and Yield Guild Games. Sapien will use the funds to enhance its artificial intelligence to better guide and assist its data labeling. The funds will also be used to expand Sapien's blockchain infrastructure to establish its human labeling team.It is reported that Sapien uses rewards on the blockchain to essentially gamify data labeling, which is an essential process for advancing AI-driven language learning models (such as OpenAI's Chat GPT). Data labeling involves tagging text, images, and various types of files with labels, enabling machine learning models to interpret data and learn from it.