Opinion: Silicon Valley Unicorns to Emerge as Decentralized AI Spurs the Next Technological Advancement

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The startup landscape is undergoing a significant transformation with the rapid growth of decentralized AI. Brilliant minds are now able to generate wealth and develop their technology without relying on venture capitalists. Instead, they are actively participating in decentralized AI protocols by running miners and validators, allowing them to generate ideas that have the potential to become billion-dollar ventures.
This phenomenon is reminiscent of the early days of Uniswap and Ethereum, where we witnessed the birth of unicorns. However, the current wave of decentralized AI goes beyond the growth of Silicon Valley giants like Amazon and Google. Instead, lean and decentralized teams are rewriting the rules of building successful ventures by raising funds directly from the community.
These teams are like David standing up against the corporate Goliaths, proving that deep pockets are not necessary to take on the giants. In the past, challenging Google was like bringing a knife to a gunfight, as they could easily acquire any disruptive startup. But with decentralized AI, that old playbook no longer applies. Thousands of developers worldwide are building their ideas on the same protocol, creating a market that even Google cannot dominate.
Decentralization is the key to this disruption. Google may have the financial resources to acquire search engines, but it lacks the credibility to develop a blockchain that can compete with Ethereum, for example. This market share is simply out of reach for Google.
The same applies to the new decentralized AI protocols. Success is no longer determined by the backing of prominent venture capitalists or the size of office spaces. Instead, it is based on the quality of miners, machine learning models, and GPU power. These nimble teams are outsmarting tech giants by solving problems with a deep understanding of the technology, rather than throwing money at them.
At the forefront of this disruption is blockchain-based decentralized AI operating on a rewards system. These protocols incentivize meaningful contributions to AI development. For instance, Bittensor allows developers worldwide to contribute by running machine learning models. Miners earn a cryptocurrency called TAO in return for processing data and performing tasks across the network. The more valuable a miner’s contribution, as determined by the network’s consensus mechanism, the more TAO they receive. This creates a self-sustaining ecosystem where innovation, efficiency, and collaboration are rewarded based on merit, rather than initial investment. It provides a thriving environment for the best ideas to flourish.
While governments and big companies waste money on tech that appears promising on paper but fails in practice, developers working within decentralized AI are using their expertise to build solutions that actually work without massive funding.
The vision behind decentralized AI and blockchain is to create a world where expertise and innovation are not limited by corporate walls. It aims to empower underdogs with the tools to build smarter. This space fosters innovation, not just for those with deep pockets, but for anyone with great ideas. We are witnessing a monumental shift, and decentralized AI is at the heart of it.
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Mark Basa
Mark Basa, co-founder of a Bitcoin payment gateway and a web3 game studio, brings a wealth of experience in the blockchain industry. He has been supported by Microsoft and the Australian Government incubator programs and has served as a layer-1 blockchain brand director.
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