My latest for Los Angeles Times: I travelled to southern India to document the rise of the AI "arm farms" — where young engineers strap GoPros to their foreheads and fold laundry or pack boxes to teach humanoid robots how to do chores. latimes.com/business/story…

Congrats to Qwen for the win in nof1's Season 1 of Alpha Arena - a glimpse of what’s coming next. It’s fascinating to watch how LLMs navigate noisy, complex market conditions and form unique investing “personalities.” But what if we raise the stakes? How about a

Our Head of Institutional Development, Mohammed Marikar, presented one of our pilots at the #SDGBlockchainAccelerator Showcase today. Together with UN Development LAC, and Cambridge University, we’re developing a unified blockchain-based inclusive finance stack for Latin America and the Caribbean —

5/ Our Head of Institutional Development, Mohammed Marikar, presented one of our pilots — a blockchain-based parametric microinsurance and gender-responsive finance platform, co-developed with UNDP LAC and Dominican Republic and the University of Cambridge.

FOMO = FLock Open Model Offering Anyone can fair-launch their model tokens in exchange for hosting services on the FLock API Platform. Model token holders can use these tokens to access discounted model usage fees or stake them to support ongoing model hosting and adoption,

FLock is featured in Messari’s State of AI 2025 in two critical verticals: Decentralized Training & Privacy-Enhancing Technologies. Messari points out the core problem with decentralized training: nodes must exchange information over the open internet rather than

2025 was a huge year for FLock 🎉 We shipped faster and expanded further than ever before. Here’s a look at what we launched, scaled, and unlocked together👇

Back in 2021, our team at RBC Wealth inc. jsun.base.eth, Prashanth Rao & I filed a patent. It was granted last month! 🎉 patents.google.com/patent/US12517…

LIVE NOW: The UK AI Agent Hack EP.4 at Imperial College London. Hosted by Imperial AI Society and Imperial Fintech, in collaboration with OpenClaw🦞. FLock is proud to join as one of the Gold Sponsors. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Our Head of DevRel, Yifan Xie, just took the stage at UK AI Agent Hack with the keynote: "AI Agents for Good." While everyone's debating whether AI will end the world, we're here building AI that can improve lives. Our work with UN Development on public healthcare in Mauritius, climate

Loved the energy at Imperial College London today! Lots of hungry builders. Got them all free codex subs to kick off the hack week.

Chamath Palihapitiya This is why model training should happen on your device, not their servers. When raw data never leaves your hands, that's AI privacy by design, not by policy. flock.io

Digital Minds Fellowship at Cambridge University - Fully funded program for graduate students & professionals to research on the societal implications of AI Includes travel and accommodation plus £1,000 stipend digitalminds.cam/fellowship/

What does sovereign AI look like in practice? FLock worked with the Sarawak AI Centre (SAIC) to show how federated learning can power AI in the public sector while keeping data and computing power under regional control.

POV: Your cat is sitting on top of your entire AI inference cluster. 3 base spec Mac Minis. 16GB RAM. $599 each. FLock's toolkit splits large models across multiple machines. No performance loss, no $10k GPU required. When we say, "What if anyone could run powerful AI from

This is wild. 143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon. They were actually building one of the largest real-world visual datasets in AI history. Niantic just disclosed that photos and AR scans collected through Pokémon Go have produced a dataset of over 30 billion

Our paper got accepted at IEEE SaTML 2026! Presenting in Munich next Monday 🎉 "SoK: Blockchain-Based Decentralized AI (DeAI)" — we systematize the DeAI landscape and benchmark cryptographic defenses against model theft. Joint work with FLock.io Ray Sun Vatsal Xihan

FLock just published the first, and so far the only, peer-reviewed SoK for decentralized AI (to the best of our knowledge). And next Monday, we are presenting it at SaTML 2026, SaTML Conference, one of the world’s leading conferences in machine learning.

The Delve scandal is the perfect excuse for me to write my long-simmering rant about SOC-2 and InfoSec. 1. 90% of SOC-2 is security theater. We couldn't pass audit until we had completed an annual performance review (absurd requirement for a team of 4). It is mind-boggling to me

Catch us at the CEO Forum: Blockchain and AI for Good - Young Talent Edition this week. 🇬🇧 FLock and Blockchain for Good Alliance (BGA) will be stopping by Imperial College London and University of Oxford, meeting students and builders to share insights in building blockchain and AI. More details ⬇️