April 07, 2025

Travis Good: Machine Intelligence as a new world currency: facing down OpenAI with Ambient, a hyperscaled decentralized PoW-powered alternative

1 hour 31 minutes

Join Tom Shaughnessy as he hosts Travis Good, CEO and co-founder of Ambient, for a deep dive into the world's first useful proof-of-work blockchain powered by AI. Fresh out of stealth, Ambient reimagines the intersection of crypto and AI by creating a decentralized network where mining secures the chain through verified AI inference on a 600B+ parameter model.

🎯 Key Highlights

▸ Ambient's vision for a decentralized currency representing a unit of machine intelligence

▸ How mining incentivizes global participation in a single model's continuous improvement

▸ The power of reasoning traces and synthetic data to create a "world's RL gym"

▸ Verified inference as the foundation for trustless AI composability

▸ The philosophical importance of open, decentralized AI vs. corporate controlled models

▸ How the economics of ambient create new possibilities for an AI-driven world

▸ Deep analysis of the geopolitical shifts in AI development with Chinese open source models

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▸ Travis's Twitter: @IridiumEagle

▸ Ambient's Twitter: @ambient_xyz

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Timestamps

00:00 - Introduction to Ambient

02:00 - The Vision: Currency for Machine Intelligence

05:00 - Convergence of AI Models and Democratizing Access

08:45 - Mining with GPUs to Improve the Network's Model

11:30 - The Power of Reasoning Traces and Synthetic Data

16:45 - Size Matters: High IQ Models and Fine-Tuning

23:15 - Speed and Performance: Building on Solana's Foundation

27:30 - Supporting Different Hardware Configurations

34:20 - Network Governance and Model Upgrades

38:00 - The Importance of Verified Inference

43:40 - The Problems with Centralized AI Models

53:00 - The Vision for an Ambient-Powered Economy

59:30 - The Future of Open Source Models

01:04:15 - Response to Leopold's "Situational Awareness"

01:13:30 - Privacy and Transaction Design

01:19:00 - Denominating Real Business in Ambient

01:25:00 - The Path Forward for Decentralized AI

Disclaimer

This podcast is strictly informational and educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any tokens or securities or to make any financial decisions. Do not trade or invest in any project, tokens, or securities based upon this podcast episode. The host and members at Delphi Ventures may personally own tokens or art that are mentioned on the podcast. Our current show features paid sponsorships which may be featured at the start, middle, and/or the end of the episode. These sponsorships are for informational purposes only and are not a solicitation to use any product, service or token.

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