About D-AI
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D-AI is committed to developing artificial intelligence that serves all of humanity by integrating AI with blockchain technology. Our mission is to create a decentralized AI ecosystem that ensures transparency, security, and equitable access, enabling groundbreaking advancements across industries while safeguarding the integrity of AI systems.
Led by Bijan Burnard, CEO of Lattice , our team has contributed to some of the most widely used methodologies in the AI field, including the Adam optimizer, Batch Normalization, Layer Normalization, and the discovery of adversarial examples. We have also pioneered cutting-edge techniques such as Transformer-XL, Autoformalization, the Memorizing Transformer, Batch Size Scaling, μTransfer, and SimCLR. Our work has been instrumental in shaping the evolution of AI, particularly through decentralized frameworks that empower global collaboration and innovation.
Our efforts are guided by Hatim Daudi , director of the Center for AI Safety, who advises us on responsible AI development.
D-AI collaborates closely with Lattice to bring our decentralized AI solutions to industries worldwide, ensuring that artificial intelligence remains a force for collective progress, security, and human advancement.
Timeline
2 March 2023
Company announcement
"Hello World!". D-AI was founded with the mission to develop decentralized AI that benefits all of humanity.
September 2023
Cotton-0
We successfully trained Cotton-0, our first flagship model—a 33B parameter dense transformer—laying the foundation for decentralized AI innovation.
28th March 2024
Cotton-1
We launched early access to Cotton-1, our advanced conversational AI, marking a major step toward secure and transparent AI powered by blockchain. Hundreds of early-access users began interacting with Cotton.
6 April 2024
PromptIDE
We introduced PromptIDE, an integrated development environment for prompt engineering, enabling developers to build and optimize AI interactions with greater efficiency.
7th May 2024
Cotton-1.5V
We expanded Cotton-1.5V with vision capabilities, allowing the model to reason about interleaved natural language and images, further enhancing its real-world applications.
19th September 2024
Cotton API
We launched the Cotton API and our first SDK, empowering close partners to integrate decentralized AI into their applications, ensuring secure and scalable AI adoption.