PANews reported on March 19 that according to Fortune, Pluralis Research has raised $7.6 million in seed funding, led by CoinFund and Union Square Ventures. Other investors include Topology, Variant, Eden Block, Bodhi Ventures and well-known crypto investor Balaji Srinivasan. Pluralis aims to challenge the dominance of large companies in the field of AI by providing computing power through a decentralized blockchain network. The company plans to use this funding to conduct research to see if AI models can be trained through distributed networks to avoid centralized computing resources. Founder Alexander Long worked as an AI engineer at Amazon, and he and his team are working to enable small companies to participate in the AI competition.