Theta Network to enable collaborative machine learning with new partnership

Blockchain video delivery network Theta Labs has partnered with artificial intelligence (AI) platform FedML to enable collaborative machine learning in content recommendation and generative AI.

In an announcement sent to Cointelegraph, the two companies said the partnership would focus on collaborative training of large-scale generative AI models, allowing the Theta TV community to contribute personal preferences and computing resources in training and implementation. AI models to improve personalized recommendations. and announcements through FedML.

Internet-scale collaborative/federated training and serving AI models for content recommendation. Source: FedML

According to the FedML team, Theta's Edge Network, which is operated by many decentralized nodes around the world, is a good fit for distributed computing required for collaborative machine learning and other AI use cases. FedML co-founder and CEO Salman Avestimehr said the association combines two visions to enable collaborative AI within the Web3 space. He further explained that:

โ€œAd recommendation and generative AI are just two immediate applications, where there is an immediate need for people to contribute their private data to training machine learning models that everyone benefits from.โ€

Meanwhile, Theta Labs co-founder and CEO Mitch Liu said the partnership unlocks a new use case for Theta edge nodes by unlocking AI and machine learning development at a "global distributed level."

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