Just 40 days after Scale AI was acquired by Meta for 14B, a16z is backing Poseidon, a crypto-native ScaleAI competitor built on @StoryProtocol. Why? AI compute and foundation models are already a multi-trillion dollar market. → GPUs: Nvidia (4T+), AMD (255B) → Models: OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and others worth 500B+ combined But the last and largest input is still unsolved: data. And its scarce. Data is the fuel for AI innovate. Meta acquires scale for 14B -> Models cancelling their contracts with Scale -> New battlefield for data. Poseidon is what Scale would’ve been if it ran onchain, coordinated globally, and solved for IP. Big win for @psdnai, which just raised 15M led by @a16zcrypto to power physical AI with rights-cleared, real-world data, licensed and monetized via @StoryProtocol.(CyrilXBT)