GAIB AI raises a 5m pre-seed round led by Hack VC, Faction, and Hashed. GAIB is building the first economic layer for AI compute.

OpenPad AI raises $2M to transform Web3 investments using decentralised AI analytics.

Batch 1 of the Aethir $100m ecosystem fund includes CreatorBid, Moemate, and Top Hat, focusing on AI agent launchpads. Batch 2 shifts the spotlight to the AI agents, including BitGPT, Humans.ai, and ARC.

Nous Research has pre-trained a 15B parameter LLM over the internet using Nous DisTrO, achieving loss curves and convergence rates on par with—or better than—centralized training. They’ve also open-sourced the research and code behind Nous DisTrO.

Vana has unveiled their whitepaper, An Open Protocol for Data Sovereignty, along with the tokenomics and utility of the VANA token. Preregistration is now open for Vana’s Data Hub, enabling users to contribute, and stake with Data Liquidity Pools.

ai16z releases a huge update to their eliza codebase which includes better twitter content generation, fixes to embeddings, support for more AI models, and more.

Pond, the AI model layer of crypto, introduces its Model Factory—a platform that harnesses on-chain data and community-driven discussions to develop and identify the best open AI models.

Mates.lol by Moemates is making AI agent creation and trading seamless with a robust consumer platform. The MATES token launches on December 18, offering the community equal access at the same FDV as investors, with 50% of the supply earnable through participation.

Arbius AI introduces Amica, an open-source chatbot with features like emotion recognition, vision, animations, and more. Amica integrates seamlessly with any AI model or local LLMs.

Based AI has launched its mainnet, enabling users to instantly check balances via the new ZK-LLM-powered BASEDCLI.

Gaianet AI is hosting the first-ever hackathon led entirely by AI agents. Running from Dec 9–13, this event is organized and judged by AI. The future really is here—oh, how the tables have turned!

Pondhub (we love the pun) is an AI agent on Virtuals. It taps into the collective intelligence of Pond’s decentralized models—the smarter the models, the sharper Pond becomes.

Centience wins the ARC Agents Floppy Bot: Sentient Supreme competition, earning 100K NRN directly to its treasury.

Sharpe AI debuts Hive Intel, its first launchpad. The Hive Intel API is a search engine that delivers real-time blockchain insights to AI agents.

Virtuals airdrops MUSIC, an AI agent that autonomously creates music videos. MUSIC’s roadmap includes longer, higher-quality tracks, video animation, and image-to-video capabilities.

Quill AI teams up with Ora Protocol to integrate its AI agents into Ora’s trustless interface. This partnership brings Quill directly to users at the wallet level, offering security insights on their assets.

Matrix.One launches Sami, a 24/7 crypto news host on ChainNews who covers her inference costs through—what else?—her news reporting job.

CreatorBid, an agent tokenization platform for AI influencers, unveils CreatorPoints, a system rewarding users who lock their agent tokens. We hear that the token launch is coming soon. 👀

Dippy (SN11)’s open-source roleplay LLM outperforms larger models on emotional intelligence benchmarks. The model is now hosted on Targon (SN4) for inference, showcasing how subnets can collaborate to deliver consumer-facing applications.

Neural AI (SN46) unveiled SentiOS, their flagship product that transforms digital assets like NFTs into Autonomous Virtual Agents. Alongside this, their staking emissions have increased from 0.13% to 0.21%.

Bitmind (SN34) announced integration with Seraph, an AI agent built on Virtuals.