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## Zuvu AI and Vana Collaborate to Stimulate Distributed AI on Bittensor
Zuvu AI and Vana are partnering to improve the expansion of distributed AI within the Bittensor system. What is their intention? To construct an AI environment that is not only more accessible but also economically viable.
Zuvu AI, formerly known as SocialTensor, brings experience in scaling four Bittensor (TAO) subnets to the forefront. Vana, recently guided by Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, contributes its user-controlled data system.
By integrating key layers of the distributed AI stack, this collaboration seeks to examine a novel model for AI development – one that is accessible, cooperative, and economically stable.
## Producing Actual Worth
Art Abal, Managing Director at Vana Foundation, emphasizes that this collaboration merges Vana’s data layer, Bittensor’s subnet system, and Zuvu’s economic layer. This integration will improve Vana’s DataDAO environment and address key obstacles in AI development.
Zuvu controls the AI economic layer, enabling investment, staking, trading, and monetization of models, agents, and data. This creates new opportunities in a rapidly growing market. According to a press release, this partnership comes at a time when the AI market is predicted to reach trillions of dollars by 2032.
## DeFi’s Growing Disturbance
The collaboration’s integration with Bittensor is tactical, leveraging its incentive-driven system to scale AI development. By integrating user-controlled data with permissionless computing and economic incentives, this partnership mirrors the disturbance distributed finance is bringing to traditional finance.
According to Abal and Zuvu AI COO Daniel Raissar, this collaboration is expected to improve the diversity of Bittensor’s subnets, support the expansion of Vana’s DataDAO, and position Zuvu as a leader in AI financialization – potentially influencing industry practices.
This partnership corresponds to the open-source AI campaign, echoing Bittensor’s growth to 45 functioning subnetworks. It constitutes an explicit reaction to the mounting requirement for substitutes to consolidated AI behemoths, furnishing a more distributed and approachable method to AI evolution.
