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What is Grass AI? The AI data layer
What is grass?
Developed as the first product of Wynd LaboratoriesGrass aims to democratize and decentralize Internet resources, and ensure fair compensation for all.
Through its Chrome extension and mobile app, Grass offers a decentralized residential proxy marketplace, allowing users to leverage their unused bandwidth to earn a share in the web scraping needed to create AI, creating an ecosystem Fairer Internet.
Grass also develops proprietary datasets and AI models to contribute to the decentralization of AI as a whole, with the aim of making the vast knowledge of the Internet both open source and accessible.
In addition to this, Grass aims to play a direct role in analyzing unstructured web data into a format that large language models (LLMs) can train from, making this data accessible via APIs and transforming the Internet into structured and openly accessible knowledge. base.
The ultimate goal of Grass is to become the foundational layer of AI decentralization, contributing to the creation of a global, open-source repository of human knowledge.
Source: Grass
How does weed work?
Available through a Chrome extension or mobile app, Grass collects your unused bandwidth and uses it to power the web scraping needed to AI to develop, train and improve.
Importantly, it does this by only leveraging the bandwidth you’re not using, meaning that not only are you rewarded for being part of the AI ecosystem, but you won’t experience any slowdown with apps and the services you use.
By using Grass, users earn Grass Points. These can be converted into network property, which can then be sold to verified businesses for uses such as web scraping and market research using cryptocurrency as a medium. Other payment methods are being explored, such as fiat options through PayPal, gift cards, and the possibility of participating in network governance.
Grass takes a strong stance on safety. The app collects basic information, such as availability, IP address logins, registration emails and passwords, but does not access any personal information on users’ devices.
As an example of their scraping prowess and the power of shared bandwidth so far, the Grass team scraped the entire Medium blog hosting website in the span of two days, totaling tens of millions of articles and a word count likely to increase. number in the tens of billions.
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What has Grass accomplished so far?
Grass entered beta in June 2023 as a Chrome extension and launched a referral program to reward early adopters with additional Grass Points.
The Grass Mobile app followed in August 2023, allowing users to earn Grass Points 24/7, provided they are connected to WiFi or 4G/5G services.
Rapid growth ensued, reaching tens of thousands of registrations per day by December 2023. This led to a $3.5 million seed round, led by Polychain and Tribe Capital, as well as angel investors such as Sami Kassab of OSS Capital and Kunal Goel of crypto research firm Messari.
The same month, Grass joined forces with Solana saga mobile phone, launching their Grass Mobile application on the Saga dApp storeand exposing Grass to both the Solana ecosystem and the eyes of the crypto world at large.
Fast forward to yesterday (June 19), and Grass announced that not only were they expecting an upcoming influx of new users due to “some reasons“, but they are also launching the Grass App Store, a variety of free apps – the first being the Grass Community Node – that allow users to test new features while receiving a multiplier of their Grass score.
Currently, the Grass team is partnering with AI labs and other projects that believe in their cause, and is looking to develop applications beyond AI training, such as AI training tools. market analysis, advertising optimization tools, financial analysis tools and a variety of other applications. for industries where data-driven decision-making can be improved through access to public data provided by AI.
Source: GigaBuds
What are GigaBuds?
Last week, according to industry sources, Grass announced plans to launch an NFT collection to a small cohort of its most loyal and longest supporters as a token of their appreciation – ahead of the launch of their proposed token, which should arrive in mid-August.
This echoes a tweet posted by the enigmatic account GigaBuds on The account has published several character-based teasers over the past week, hinting that some sort of character-based, narrative-driven NFT collection is coming to Grass.
Our sources indicate that GigaBuds is the name of this NFT collection and that these NFTs will play a key role in the future growth of Grass, with a multitude of benefits and utilities available to holders.
A select group of Grass users were invited to participate in a pre-sale held last week, which sold out within minutes.
Additional information regarding the GigaBuds is not yet known – although with Grass announcing a major update that will soon bring a “massive influx of new users”, we suspect it won’t be long before all is revealed.