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## Zuvu AI and Vana Collaborate to Enhance Decentralized AI on Bittensor
On February 26, Zuvu AI and Vana revealed a collaboration designed to improve decentralized artificial intelligence within the Bittensor network. Both organizations are committed to developing a more accessible and financially viable AI ecosystem.
Zuvu AI, previously known as SocialTensor, provides experience in scaling four Bittensor (TAO) subnets. Vana, which recently obtained guidance from Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, contributes its innovative user-controlled data network.
The collaboration seeks to evaluate a novel model for AI development—one that is transparent, collaborative, and financially sustainable—by integrating essential layers of the decentralized AI stack.
## Developing Tangible Value
Art Abal, Managing Director of the Vana Foundation, stated that the collaboration integrates Vana’s data layer, Bittensor’s subnet network, and Zuvu’s economic layer to enhance Vana’s DataDAO ecosystem and tackle significant challenges in AI development.
Zuvu drives the AI economic layer, enabling investment, staking, trading, and monetization of models, agents, and data, thereby creating new opportunities in a rapidly expanding market. According to the press release, the collaboration occurs at a time when the AI market is predicted to reach trillions of dollars by 2032.
## DeFi’s Increasing Disturbance
The partnership’s integration TruBit Collaborates with Morpho to Introduce DeFi Unearned Revenue in Latin America Bittensor is strategic, utilizing its incentive-driven network to scale AI development. By combining user-owned data with permissionless computation and economic incentives, the collaboration mirrors the disturbance of traditional finance by decentralized finance (DeFi).
According to Abal and Zuvu AI COO Daniel Raissar, the partnership is anticipated to enhance Bittensor’s subnet diversity, support the expansion of Vana’s DataDAO, and establish Zuvu as a leader in the financialization of AI, possibly influencing industry practices.
This partnership corresponds flawlessly with the path of open-source artificial intelligence progress, reflecting Bittensor’s growth to 45 functioning subnets. It constitutes an immediate reaction to the increasing requirement for substitutes to centralized artificial intelligence behemoths, presenting a more dispersed and approachable method.
