Written by: TechFlow
This week, the Virtuals ecosystem once again reached a climax, triggered by a project called I.R.I.S, which is about to launch on the Virtuals platform. With the market gradually warming up and interest rate cut expectations approaching, more and more AI projects have been making moves recently.
This article will review recent popular or upcoming TGE AI projects.
1、I.R.I.S - Virtuals' Important Layout on Ethereum
I.R.I.S is a virtual agent based on X platform, jointly launched by Virtuals and Nethermind.
Nethermind was founded by Tomasz, the joint executive director of Ethereum, so I.R.I.S is viewed as endorsed by both Virtuals and the Ethereum Foundation, thus gaining significant attention.
Nethermind launched the AuditAgent platform, aimed at achieving automated smart contract security, somewhat similar to the previous yesnoerror direction.
I.R.I.S is deployed on social channels, using AuditAgent's custom AI framework to provide near real-time smart contract analysis - accelerating security workflow by identifying vulnerabilities in minutes instead of weeks.
I.R.I.S is directly integrated into developer conversations on X - providing analysis based on real vulnerabilities and expert-driven insights to meet immediate needs.
On June 13th, IRIS will officially TGE, with expectations for its performance.
2、IDOL - AI-Agent in Entertainment, MEET48's Masterpiece
On June 11th, Binance Alpha listed $IDOL. Users who opened airdrops on June 9th still have 14 days to claim airdrops.
If you don't understand $IDOL, you must have heard of MEET48 or SNH48 somewhere.
MEET48 positions itself as Web3's first AI-Agent and AIUGC creator and fan economy ecosystem community, with $IDOL launched by MEET48.
Another label for MEET48 is being a top entertainment application in the BNB Chain ecosystem. The MEET48 community currently has 3.8 million active users and 500,000 Web3 wallets globally, ranking first in social applications on BNB Chain multiple times with over 100 million chain interactions. MEET48 was also successfully selected for the BNB Chain MVB eighth season accelerator program.
MEET48 focuses on the entertainment field and is a strategic partner with SNH48 GROUP. The first Web3 global idol annual popularity final launched by MEET48 also opened in June.
3、Sahara AI - Supported by Buidlpad, Community Subscription Ended
You must have been bombarded by Sahara AI these days, with many thinking it's a big opportunity.
Sahara AI has a luxurious investment lineup, previously receiving investments from institutions like Polychain, Pantera, and Yzi Labs. Sahara AI provides an one-stop solution from data collection, labeling to model training, AI Agent creation, and asset trading.
The community round on Buildpad has currently ended, which is the second project on its platform. The first project, Solayer, performed quite well upon launch.
Another point of interest in Sahara AI is its team. The two core founders are Tyler Zhou, former Binance Labs investment director, and Sean Ren, a tenured professor at USC and 2023 Samsung researcher, with core team members from Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Microsoft, Google, and other institutions.
The TGE time for Sahara AI is currently unknown, but it is said to accelerate pace after the community round.
4、Mira - Listed on Yap, Kaito Top Rank
On June 11th, Mira announced its listing on Kaito and stated it would give 0.5% share to Yapper. Shortly after the announcement, Mira occupied the top position on Kaito. It can be anticipated that more Yap and attention will be drawn to Mira based on Kaito's incentives.
What does Mira do? Simply put: Mira helps you verify whether the things AI gives you are real or fake. For example, you ask AI about today's weather, and it's clearly rainy, but AI analyzes and infers that today is sunny. When you question it, AI will self-prove and remain unrepentant. This is just one example, with many other scenarios. Many friends using AI tools have encountered such issues. In other words, AI gives you something fake, but you're unaware, commonly known as "AI hallucination"
Mira was born to solve this problem, thus positioned as crucial AI infrastructure. Specifically, the core is "modularizing AI results and conducting distributed verification". For example, when AI provides content, Mira's processing flow is: AI content → Decompose into different modules → Verified by different nodes → Obtain reliability results of different modules → Finally define AI's authenticity.
5、Allora - Foundation Established, Mainnet Upcoming
Allora is a decentralized inference network, also an AI infrastructure type, capable of providing specific models according to different organizations' specific requirements.
Allora provides an abstraction layer for AI collaboration, where multiple models focusing on tight problems can converge to create more powerful, inclusive outputs while achieving AI self-evolution.
The network intelligently aggregates these models - predicting participants' performance in real-time and learning from it.
A topic coordinator sets tasks, working models generate inferences, and evaluators compare these inferences with facts, producing more consistent and accurate inference results than any single participant.
Allora combines collective insights and context-aware adjustments to continuously improve its predictions, surpassing the capabilities of any single model. Allora's foundation was established in Q1, but it is said that TGE will occur in Q3.
