The decentralized AI data infrastructure project Poseidon, incubated by the on-chain IP protocol Story, announced today that it has completed a $15 million seed round of financing, led by a16z crypto. This round of funding will be used to accelerate the construction of a full-stack data infrastructure layer aimed at Bots, multimodal models, and next-generation physical AI, to tackle the most critical yet overlooked bottleneck in the current AI development: high-quality, IP-secure, traceable data acquisition.
"In today's world where models and computing power are gradually being commoditized, the real competitive barrier is data."
——Sandeep Chinchali, Chief AI Officer of Story and Chief Scientist of Poseidon
The mission of Poseidon is to expand the programmable IP layer built by Story to real-world data and