On February 22, the blind computing network Nillion tweeted that the launch of the Nillion public mainnet had been delayed until March.
According to official news, federated learning protocol Primus announced the completion of a $6.50 million pre-seed and seed round of financing. This round of financing was led by Dispersion VC, Symbolic VC and VanEck, with participation from Samsung Next, Alchemy, Maelstrom Fund, Welara, BB Fund, Modular Capital, Karatage, Initial Ventures and other institutions. Primus is a protocol that securely performs computations on untrusted networks without exposing sensitive data through the Multiparty...
Microsoft (MSFT. O) has launched a quantum computing chip called Majorana 1.
According to official news, decentralized GPU cloud computing provider Aethir announced on the X platform that its native token ATH has been officially launched on the Solana blockchain as it expands the Aethir ecosystem to other blockchain networks. ATH is expanding to other blockchains using full-chain token solutions from partners LayerZero and Stargate.
On February 12th, on the evening of February 11th, the National Supercomputing Internet Platform announced the launch of the "AI Ecosystem Partner Acceleration Program", providing incentives such as free use of the DeepSeek API interface for 3 months and a 10 million card-hour computing power resource pool. According to reports, the supercomputing Internet platform has launched the model image of the full-blood version of DeepSeek, and has opened the DeepSeek API interface for 3 months for enter...
Quantum computing company QuEra Computing announced the completion of a financing round of more than $230 million, with new investors including Google's quantum artificial intelligence business unit, SoftBank Vision Fund and Valor Equity Partners.
Saudi Arabia announced that it will invest $14.90 billion in AI, cloud computing and emerging technologies. The country has partnered with global tech giants, including Google, Lenovo, Alibaba, and others. Saudi oil company Aramco is also promoting AI-powered cloud computing partnerships. Investment projects also include Lenovo building a $200 million AI and robotics manufacturing facility in Saudi Arabia. Several tech companies also plan to increase investment in localized AI innovation to enha...
Paolo Ardoino, chief executive of Tether, predicts that quantum computing will eventually crack inactive bitcoin wallets and put the coins in those wallets back into circulation. But he says this is still a long way off. "Any lost bitcoin in a wallet, including Satoshi's [if not alive] bitcoin, will be hacked and re-circulated". "Quantum computing is nowhere near any meaningful risk of cracking bitcoin encryption."
On February 7th, privacy and security computing network Nillion announced that the registration window for NIL token airdrop has been closed. After the mainnet goes live, participants' NIL tokens will be deposited into their application wallets. Failure to register in time will result in the loss of Nillion airdrop eligibility. Nillion has allocated up to 75,000,000 tokens (7.5% of the total supply) to its community members and early builders.
According to the Guosheng computer team, DeepSeek has distilled six small models open-sourced to the community through the output of DeepSeek-R1. Among them, the 32B and 70B models have achieved the effect of benchmarking OpenAI o1-mini in multiple capabilities, and the pricing of DeepSeek-R1 API services is much lower than that of OpenAI o1. The lower cost allows enterprises to develop AI applications with higher efficiency, which is expected to accelerate the domestic AI application from conce...
On January 20th, blind computing network Nillion announced that it will distribute up to 5 million zero tokens (7.5% of the total supply) as rewards to community members and early contributors, including: Validator Program Participants: Active validators who have been running a validator node for at least 1 week 2. Community contributors: such as Discord volunteers, OG members, blind warriors, POAP holders, etc 3. Developers: including GitHub contributors, Hackathon and bounty event participants...
On January 14th, Meta CEO Zuckerberg reiterated Huang Renxun's statement that "quantum computing is still a long way from application". Recently, Zuckerberg said in an interview that he supports the industry's consensus on quantum computing. "I'm not an expert on quantum computing, but I understand that it is still some way from becoming a truly practical paradigm," Zuckerberg said. Overnight quantum computing concept stocks fell, D-WaveQuantum closed down 33.62%, Rigetti Computing fell 32.25%, ...
Distributed cloud computing platform Aethir and decentralized blockchain platform SuperNet have reached a cooperation, and the two sides will jointly promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence and digital transformation. Through a unique AI operating system, SuperNet will provide innovative solutions for the management and governance of agents, and support the creation and deployment of customized AI agents through AI Agent Studio. In addition, the two sides plan to carry out more s...