威尼斯AI：AI的变形

当埃里克·沃希（Erik Voorhees）宣布威尼斯AI在基地上发布的代币时，大多数人都错过了讽刺意味。曾经建造Shapeshift以将加密货币释放的人

Erik Voorhees, the maverick behind the once-Bitcoin gambling site and later billion-dollar crypto exchange ShapeShift, is now attempting something even more ambitious: liberating AI from centralized control.

Erik Voorhees是曾经是怪异的赌博网站背后的特立独行者，后来又是十亿美元的加密交易所变形，现在正在尝试更加雄心勃勃的东西：从集中控制中解放了AI。

When Voorhees announced Venice AI's token launch on Base on May 29, most people missed the irony, but not us. We dove behind the scenes to uncover the story of how Voorhees is now attempting to free AI from centralized control—and sparking a new chapter in the battle between centralized and decentralized tech.

当Voorhees于5月29日宣布威尼斯AI的代币在基地上发布时，大多数人都错过了讽刺意味，但我们却不是我们。我们落后于幕后，揭示了Voorhees现在如何试图从集中控制中解放AI的故事，并在集中式和分散技术之间的战斗中引发了新的篇章。

Let's back up. Venice AI, launched in May 2024, isn't just another AI chatbot. Then?

让我们备份。威尼斯AI于2024年5月推出，不仅仅是另一家AI聊天机器人。然后？

It's an entire platform built on a radical premise: what if you could access the world's most powerful AI models without surveillance, without censorship, and without leaving a trace?

这是一个以根本前提为基础的整个平台：如果您可以在没有监视的情况下访问世界上最强大的AI模型，而无需审查，而不会留下痕迹，该怎么办？

The numbers suggest Voorhees might be onto something.

这些数字表明，Voorhees可能会成为某物。

Since launch, Venice has attracted 400,000 registered users, handles 15,000 inference requests per hour, and maintains 50,000 daily active users.

自推出以来，威尼斯吸引了400,000名注册用户，每小时处理15,000个推理请求，并维持50,000个活跃用户。

What makes Venice truly different is its approach to AI access.

使威尼斯真正与众不同的是它的AI访问方法。

Unlike ChatGPT or Claude, which run on their own proprietary models, Venice acts more like a privacy-preserving gateway to multiple AI models.

与Chatgpt或Claude不同的是，威尼斯的行为更像是通往多种AI模型的隐私门户的门户。

Want to use Meta's LLaMA? No problem.

想使用Meta的美洲驼吗？没问题。

Prefer the newly restricted DeepSeek? Venice has you covered.

更喜欢新限制的DeepSeek吗？威尼斯让你覆盖。

It's this last point that proved particularly prescient.

正是最后一点被证明是特别有先见之明的。

When DeepSeek, China's rising AI star, suddenly restricted access to Chinese phone numbers only, Venice became one of the few remaining gateways to what many consider the most advanced open-source AI model.

当中国崛起的AI明星DeepSeek突然仅限于中国电话号码的访问时，威尼斯成为了剩下的少数几个门户之一，许多人认为许多人认为最先进的开源AI车型。

The timing couldn't have been better – or more suspicious, depending on who you ask.

根据您的要求，时机再好不过了，或者更可疑。

Before we dive into the controversy that followed, we need to understand exactly how this "uncensored AI" actually works.

在我们探讨随后的争议之前，我们需要准确了解这种“未经审查的AI”实际上是如何工作的。

Because as with most things in crypto, the devil is in the technical details.

因为与加密中的大多数事情一样，魔鬼也在技术细节中。

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If Venice AI's promise sounds too good to be true – private, unrestricted access to top AI models without surveillance – that's because making it work required some clever engineering.

如果威尼斯AI的承诺听起来太好了 - 无需监视而无限制地访问AI模型的私人，不受限制的访问 - 那是因为使它起作用需要一些巧妙的工程。

The secret sauce? A combination of blockchain technology, decentralised GPU networks, and what Venice calls "abliterated models."

秘密调味料？区块链技术，分散的GPU网络以及威尼斯称之为“融化模型”的结合。

Let's break it down.

让我们分解。

First, there's the privacy layer.

首先，有隐私层。

Unlike traditional AI platforms that store every conversation on their servers, Venice claims to keep nothing. Your chats stay local, encrypted on your device.

与传统的AI平台将每个对话存储在服务器上的对话不同，威尼斯声称什么都不保留。您的聊天保持本地，并在设备上加密。

When you switch browsers or devices, your history starts fresh – because there is no central database keeping track.

当您切换浏览器或设备时，您的历史记录开始新鲜 - 因为没有中央数据库跟踪。

This raises an obvious question: if everything's local, how does the AI processing actually happen?

这就提出了一个明显的问题：如果一切都是本地的，那么AI处理实际上是如何发生的？

Venice routes your queries through a decentralised network of GPU providers.

威尼斯通过分散的GPU提供商网络来路由您的查询。

Each node only sees the immediate request, without any context about who you are or what you've asked before. It's like having a different person handle each sentence of your conversation, with no one seeing the full picture.

每个节点只能看到即时请求，而没有任何有关您是谁或您以前问的内容的上下文。这就像让另一个人处理对话的每个句子一样，没有人看到完整的图片。

Then there's the "abliteration" process – Venice's approach to censorship resistance. They take open-source AI models like LLaMA or DeepSeek and modify them to remove built-in restrictions.

然后是“融合”过程 - 威尼斯对审查制度抵抗的方法。他们采用诸如Llama或DeepSeek之类的开源AI模型，并修改它们以删除内置的限制。

Here's where critics have raised valid concerns: if you're removing AI safeguards, what prevents misuse?

批评家在这里引起了有效的关注：如果您要删除AI保障措施，什么阻止了滥用？

Venice's answer is a tiered system.

威尼斯的答案是一个分层系统。

Free tier: Basic safeguards remain

免费层：基本保障措施仍然

Private tier: More flexibility, with 20 daily prompts

私人层：更灵活，每天有20个提示

Pro tier ($18/month): Full access to unrestricted models

Pro Tier（每月18美元）：完全访问不受限制的型号

The platform offers access to an impressive array of models.

该平台提供了令人印象深刻的模型。

OpenAI's GPT variations

Openai的GPT变化

Anthropic's Claude

人类的克劳德（Claude）

Meta's LLaMA

元电话

The controversial DeepSeek

有争议的深发现

Various specialised coding models

各种专业编码模型

Each model can be selected based on your specific needs – a luxury not offered by most AI platforms.

可以根据您的特定需求选择每种型号 - 大多数AI平台都不提供的奢侈品。

Perhaps the most innovative aspect is how Venice handles the economics of AI computing.

也许最具创新性的方面是威尼斯如何处理AI计算的经济学。

This is where the VVV token comes in, and where things get really interesting.

这是VVV令牌进入的地方，事情变得非常有趣。

When Venice AI launched its VVV token on January 28, 2025, it did something unusual in crypto: it skipped the presale.

当威尼斯AI于2025年1月28日推出VVV令牌时，它在加密货币中做了不寻常的事情：它跳过了预售。

Instead, 50% of the total 100 million tokens went straight to the community through an airdrop.

取而代之的是，总计1亿个令牌中有50％通过空投直接进入社区。

The distribution looked clean on paper.

分布在纸上看起来很干净。

50% to community (airdrop)

50％的社区（空投）

35% to Venice company (partially vested)

威尼斯公司35％（部分归属）

10% to Venice Incentive Fund

威尼斯激励基金10％

5% for liquidity development

流动性开发的5％

It's what happened next that got everyone's attention.

接下来发生的事情引起了每个人的注意。

The VVV token took just 90 minutes to hit a fully diluted value of $1 billion after its January 27 launch, before pushing even higher to

1月27日发布后，VVV令牌仅花了90分钟即可达到10亿美元的全部稀释价值，然后将更高的