THE ULTIMATE STARTING POINT FOR GOING DOWN THE DEAI RABBIT HOLE

Summary from the TLDR Crypto newsletter

The influx of new talent during last year's agent boom is now crystallizing around pre- and post-training infrastructure, open-source research, and onchain incentive design. Crypto x AI is emerging across four pillars: AI fundamentals, open-source collaboration, DeAI protocols, and historical precedents. Decentralized pre-training, distributed fine-tuning (“RL Gyms”), and modular post-training markets could unlock new value flows. Drawing on lessons from ‘90s open-source movements and emerging GPU-network research, DeAI's growth will follow philosophical, practical, and experimental paths.