Intelligence3

d/acc-Driven Open Source Modelverse

Invest Your Next DeepSeek

-- Vitalik B. & Tomasz S. in ETH SF

Closed LLMs: The Innovation Bottleneck

Closed‑source LLMs from tech giants hog the spotlight and revenue, crowding out niche models. Their locked code blocks fine‑tuning and remixing, throttling innovation and denying creators true ownership or income.

Opportunity: Using Crypto as the Currency of AI

Although giant closed-source LLMs dominate both exposure and revenue, with open-source breakthroughs like DeepSeek driving down the cost and time to train models, a shift is coming: vertical, specialized models are rising fast and need visibility, composability, and monetization. Intelligence³ leverages Web3 to break this monopoly—empowering creators to earn from their innovations, build freely, and own what they make.

AI Market Dominance

Intelligence3: When Hugging Face Meets Uniswap

Intelligence³ builds a decentralized open-source AI modelverse that merges the open, collaborative spirit of Hugging Face with the powerful financial mechanics of Uniswap. We turn any AI model into a tokenized, on‑chain asset. Creators raise funds, earn usage royalties, and let the community trade, fork, and price models in a permissionless marketplace.

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The AI Modelverse

Explore an open-source ecosystem where creators and users can share, discover, and collaborate on a universe of AI models.

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AI Models as Liquid Assets

We transform AI models into tradable on-chain assets (RWAs). This unlocks immediate liquidity, verifiable ownership, and new yield opportunities for intellectual property.

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Initial Model Offerings (IMOs)

Seamlessly crowdfund, launch, and trade fractional ownership of AI models on our decentralized exchange, inspired by Uniswap's automated liquidity model.

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Market-Driven Benchmarks

A model's true value and rank are determined by open market activity, moving beyond traditional performance metrics to a transparent, real-time valuation system.

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On-Chain Royalties & Collaboration

Build upon existing models in the ecosystem and automatically earn royalties from your derivative creations, fostering a vibrant cycle of collaborative innovation.

Community-Governed Ecosystem

Vote on model trust and safety, guide the platform's future, and share in the collective success of the Modelverse.

Create to earn. Co‑create to prosper.

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Create & Release

Upload models to earn

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Trade & Use

Pay for inference, buy ownership

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Earn & Grow

Continuous royalties from usage

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Co-creation

Combine into new assets

Any builders can mint their models as on‑chain assets, earn from automated usage royalties and ownership swapping, and instantly fork or combine any open model—every remix is tracked and revenue is split back to all contributors.

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Ecosystem
Creator
Consumer
Investor

See Intelligence3 in Action

Explore Platform
Decentralized Hugging Face x Uniswap Demo

Decentralized Hugging Face x Uniswap

Dynamic Workflow Demo

Dynamic Workflow

AI Benchmark Demo

AI Benchmark

Intelligence3 vs Traditional AI

The smarter path to intelligence isn't building one massive LLM—it's creating a swap of vertical models. Each specialized for specific domains, collectively more powerful, and democratically owned by their creators and users.

Dimension
Intelligence3
Traditional Closed-source LLM
Path to 'Smarter' AI
Ecosystem of Specialists- Fosters smaller, expert models trained on high-quality, vertical data, "smarter" for specific tasks with less processing time.
Focuses on creating massive, general-purpose models. The immense data requirements can limit agility and make it difficult to achieve deep expertise in niche areas.
Investment
Community funded
Funded by large corporations.
Control
Shared ownership. You own the model weights and can fine-tune them on your private data.
API-level access, no Control.
Cost Model
Transparent & Efficient, inference costs are fixed and predictable.
Unpredictable, usage-based fees.
Data Privacy
Sensitive Data stays in-house, max privacy.
Users pay recurring subscription or API fees.
Community
Community as owners & governors.
Community as customers.

See Intelligence Cubed in Action

Traditional AI Development

Traditional approach
// Closed Source Approach
class ProprietaryAI {
    private blackBoxModel;
    private restrictedAccess;
    
    moveFastBreakThings() {
        // Rapid deployment
        // Unknown safety implications
        // Limited oversight
    }
}

d/acc Intelligence Cubed Approach

d/acc approach
// Open Source d/acc Approach
class IntelligenceCubed {
    public transparentModel: DeepSeek;
    public openAccess: Community;
    
    defensiveAcceleration() {
        // Safety-first development
        // Democratic governance
        // Transparent processes
        return this.buildResponsibly();
    }
}

Open Source Modelverse Ecosystem

  • 🌐 Interconnected AI models and frameworks
  • 🔗 Seamless integration across platforms
  • 📚 Open documentation and transparent development
  • 🤝 Community-driven innovation and collaboration

DeepSeek Investment Strategy

Investment strategy workflow
  • 📊 Strategic focus on next-generation AI models
  • 🔭 Due diligence with safety and transparency criteria
  • 🎨 Portfolio diversification across AI infrastructure
  • 🚀 Long-term value creation through open-source innovation

About Us

Our Mission

Democratizing AI through defensive acceleration—building safe, transparent systems that empower creators and accelerate innovation responsibly.

Our Team

The I³ team is a collective of world-class builders, researchers, and strategists from elite institutions like Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, Berkeley, Duke, and Cornell. Our deep expertise in AI, blockchain, venture capital, and product design is backed by experience from Y Combinator, top tech firms like TikTok, and leading research labs. United in purpose, we are building the future of decentralized AI infrastructure.

Fellows

Our innovation is guided by an elite group of fellows including researchers from premier institutions. This powerful blend of academic rigor and industry savvy pushes the boundaries of what's possible.

This esteemed group includes Xuandong Zhao (Postdoc, UC Berkeley RDI, supervised by Prof. Dawn Song), Yuejiang Liu (Postdoc, Stanford AI Lab), Yaqi Xie (Postdoc, CMU Robotics Institute), Jason Dou (Postdoc, Harvard), and Peter Wang (Postdoc, Caltech), Shiyi Du (Ph.D., CMU, Computational Biology), Jiayuan Liu (Ph.D., CMU, Computer Science), Yitong Li (Ph.D., Stanford, Computational Science), and Chengfeng Mao (Ph.D., MIT, Computer Science).

Advisors

200+
AI Models
90 K
Citations
Y Combinator McKinsey & Company TikTok UC Berkeley Berkeley Haas Stanford University Carnegie Mellon University Duke University Cornell University MIT University of Michigan University of Chicago Caltech

Remodeling the AI World

We're creating the NASDAQ for AI—a transparent marketplace where model valuations are discovered through real market activity, democratizing AI investment for creators everywhere.

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