Vana and Flower Labs team up to launch COLLECTIVE-1, the world’s first decentralized, user-owned AI foundation model built on privacy and data ownership.

Vana and Flower Labs announced a partnership to build COLLECTIVE-1, which they describe as the world’s first decentralized, user-owned foundation model. The model is intended to be trained on user-contributed data while preserving individual ownership and control, using Vana’s user-owned data network and Flower’s decentralized AI training framework.

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• Flower: Advance Collaborative Superintelligence (flower.ai)

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