Mined with CoinFund
There’s so much noise across the echo chamber of crypto culture. What’s something people aren’t talking enough about?
Mined with CoinFund is a weekly show that explores the unearthed narratives within the crypto space. As a team of early stage investors and operators, our business is built on idea-spotting: catching a glimmer of one intriguing idea that could become a market-shaping opportunity.
Mining is a cryptographic process, but in the physical world, it is digging through boulders to find gems. We aim to uncover unpopular truths and unspoken perspectives that deserve to be debated.
Mined with CoinFund
The Most Nonconsensus Approach to Training Models
The rapid rise of DeepSeek earlier this year provided many developers the tremendous validation that open source AI could overtake centralized machine learning. Still, there’s one nonconsensus approach to training models that is hotly debated in the deAI sphere.
CoinFund portfolio company Pluralis Founder Alexander Long and Topology Ventures Founder and Managing Partner Casey Caruso join Mined with CoinFund host Jake Brukhman to discuss decentralized training: how it works, why people are critical of its potential, and how open source AI can uproot regimes of control over information. They cover:
- Why skeptics believe decentralized training won’t work (3:50)
- Training AI as a public good (12:08)
- DeepSeek’s threat to traditional AI (17:54)
- Web3’s contributions to broader AI (28:33)
- Monetizing open models (38:08)
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