Cortex Labs

Brief introduction: Cortex is a decentralized AI autonomous system. The blockchain wants to make AI consensus available for contracts. Traditional EVM is not able to run a smart contract on full node with complex inference computation, since the computational load is too heavy on CPU for a full node. The Cortex VM enables those inference instructions running on GPU / FPGA. The model conversion between different framework, like TensorFlow or MXNet, would be done by the team. The fee for a contract using those inference instruction set is going to be designed for GPU / FPGA. The team will also provide a basic model zoo with world class quality. The project is founded by a group of hardcore veteran in blockchain field. The technical stack and knowledge reside in blockchain and machine learning, both the team members and advisor groups are top tier in the industry. They rethink and redefine the question that what would be a strong endorsement for a currency, meanwhile, the real "intelligent" smart contracts will be implemented. The technical highlights are: Mining coins based on Cuckoo Cycle or dynamically adjusted by a set of hash functions. Focus on decentralized inference consensus, not training. Redesign virtual machine to add computational cost for model inference. Already have some experiments for full node inference performance test, included in white paper. Provide hardware solutions for full node contract verifications. Model conversion / exchange tool - the model representation tool in the white paper. The team has first hand experience in mining pool, smart contract, miner software and top tier machine learning competition records, their project is also contribute into MXNet awesome project. Papers published on SIGGRAPH，ACM Transactions on Graphics The Winner of 2017 Dorahack Hacker Marathon (Hyperledger ABS System) MXNet Contributor Kaggle Data Science Bowl 2017 Leaderboard No.1 AI Challenger Scene Classification Top 2% Carvana Image Masking Challenge Top 3% Use cases: Autonomous AI self-governed system. M2M economy for AI computation senario - like finding targeting faces / performing certain jobs to get rewards. The state of the art model zoo on blockchain.