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Hey there.

It's Sam Ewan from CoinDesk. oh, back here with Leah Colin Butler, and some amazing guests,

both Tina and Eric Voorhees from Venice AI.

We're so excited to learn about this new project that you guys have.

So first, I would love one of you just to tell us, what is Venice, why did you decide

that this needs to exist in the world?

And also, how does it relate to the blockchain industry in relation to other AI projects

that often are trying to not have transparency and openness in their systems?

Yeah, well, Venice is a AI chat app, like a chat GPT.

You can do text, image code with it.

The main difference is that it does not spy on you, so it's private.

All the things that you say aren't being warehoused by a centralized company,

and it is not censoring the answers that you get back. So it is private, it is

permissionless, it uses open source models, and that's the main distinguishing factor.

Was there, I guess, what was wrong that you guys were seeing with the existing AI, you know, the llamas of the world and the chatch EBTs and what Google's doing, that made you decide this was something that needed to exist in the world?

I personally don't want all of my conversations with an AI to be stored forever by a central party to be offered up to the government as soon as they ask for it.

Anyone who doesn't have a problem with that might not find Venice that interesting, but anyone who cares about privacy, not just for today, but like over the entire lifetime that they're using these things, we're offering

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