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Vitto Rivabella retweeted
Introducing Pirate ZK Inference
You can now use DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 and other sovereign AI models anonymously:
Connect your agent, choose a model, and Pirate ZK Inference anonymizes your personal details before they reach your inference provider like OpenRouter.
Featuring zkAPI + a TEE enclaved scrubber model. This is Pirate Face's first feature in its upcoming privacy ladder for AI.
Try it below ↓
Vitto Rivabella retweeted
PSA: @VittoStack, @DavideCrapis & co have been in the trenches seeking actual use-cases for crypto and AI.
This is a major breakthrough that opens up a design space where Ethereum, as a cryptographic world computer, can natively position itself as being useful for AI.
Vitto Rivabella retweeted
Ok, hats off, this is genuinely based.
Private AI inference with usage enforced through zero-knowledge proofs instead of accounts, identity, or surveillance.
This is exactly the kind of weird cypherpunk infrastructure Ethereum should be building.
Vitto Rivabella retweeted
Private inference without handing your identity
Vitto Rivabella retweeted
Today the EF and OA announce zkAPI—a new means for private AI
Picture this: deposit ether into a vault, sign a zk proof, get a fixed amount of private inference. Advances like these help us move past middlemen's requirements that we link our data and identities.
Read more below
Quick updates on the Open Anonymity project (@OpenAnonProject)!
1. OA-chat is live! You can now signup: chat.openanonymity.ai
2. We collaborated with @ethereumfndn (@VitalikButerin, @DavideCrapis, @VittoStack, @curryrasul) to develop zkAPI, a new zero-knowledge protocol for accessing gated / paid APIs with unlinkability. It’s like a generalization of OA unlinkable inference that also abstracts payments away. Now also available on OA-chat!
I'm excited because more infrastructure should exist where privacy and sovereignty is foundational and people are in control.
Vitto Rivabella retweeted
Excited that zkAPI is out and live!
Great joint effort with @VitalikButerin on our initial design, @curryrasul and @kenziyuliu + OA team on implementation, and the amazing push from @VittoStack on the dAI team to bring this out.
If you want to implement private payments on Ethereum for your API, check the post and repo.
We have more things coming out to enhance user sovereignty and privacy in the age of AI.
Vitto Rivabella retweeted
Quick updates on the Open Anonymity project (@OpenAnonProject)!
1. OA-chat is live! You can now signup: chat.openanonymity.ai
2. We collaborated with @ethereumfndn (@VitalikButerin, @DavideCrapis, @VittoStack, @curryrasul) to develop zkAPI, a new zero-knowledge protocol for accessing gated / paid APIs with unlinkability. It’s like a generalization of OA unlinkable inference that also abstracts payments away. Now also available on OA-chat!
I'm excited because more infrastructure should exist where privacy and sovereignty is foundational and people are in control.
Vitto Rivabella retweeted
Today is my last day at @Alchemy, after more than four years, and I have nothing but gratitude for this adventure. I need to thank the people who made it one of the best chapters of my life 👇
None of this would have happened without the GOATs @VittoStack and @thatguyintech. It all started with the unforgettable Road to Web3 bootcamp and the first cohort of Alchemy Ambassadors. They gave me a place in this community, and then asked me to join the team.
Then came @BeingDanNolan, @CodesMcCabe and @punk6068, three incredibly talented and kind people behind Alchemy University, a project that opened the door for so many students and new builders. I was lucky to collaborate with them and support the students along the way.
Big shoutout to the marketing team too, some seriously talented and committed people I learned so much from: @itsNikkiLOL, @swampnet, @MaxCrawford8, @cryptobytch, @uttam_singhk and many others.
Thank you @nikil and @thejoelau for building Alchemy, a project I'll always love, and for giving me the chance to be part of it.
And a very special thank you to @angelinarusse, for always being so kind and making me feel like part of the family.
But most of all, the Alchemy community 🙌
The kindest, most talented and most human group of people I've ever met.
You were the reason I showed up every day, to every session, full of energy and the joy of doing it together.
@talondragon000, @bartomolina, @LTebbs2, @AnshMinchekar, @naruto11eth, @RocioGonzalezT9, @spaceagente, @stevibe, @artlu99, @yikesawjeez, @FrancescoCiull4, @KillianeMenand, @BMbotsan, @chai_really, @tusharlog, @SummerMaxis, @0xeik, @SahilAujla15, @davide_petti, @emmanuelkiranrand and many many more! 🫶
Thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤️
PLW3!
(My DMs are always open, let's keep in touch!)
damn, what a run - looking forward to seeing what you'll do next king. You're awesome, anyone would be happy to be working with you
Vitto Rivabella retweeted
I want to share my hot take on the TypeSafe Jev model that was announced yesterday.
Comparing it to general LLMs is misleading because the model cannot generate free text. It's more similar to a smart tool.
Based on the (little) public information it seems more similar to an old school classifier. It has some cool features, it leverages the flexibility and parallelism of transformers and can take free text input, and is probably easy to adapt to specific use cases that require structured output (you can get a tailor classification-style output quickly and cheaply).
These tools are interesting in applied environments:
- Business operations
- Data infrastructure
- Robotics processes
as they can generate hard surfaces at lower cost with more security guarantees. But IMO not a game changer in terms of Frontier AI as the casual twitter observer would think.
Nothing really, maybe different internal (can’t see them, have no idea) - they launched 2 months ago but no one jumped from their chairs
Essentially, this is @levantolabs with better marketing.
After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to AGI?
I’ve spent the last 2 years in stealth building a new way to train models (RLCD), and a new type of frontier AI model that we are releasing today: Jev
• 20-200x faster
• 40-400x cheaper (w/ output tokens free)
• Frontier composable intelligence optimized for decisions
AFAICT the shortest path to AI-based economic revolution
Vitto Rivabella retweeted
bringing this line back from Feb that is still proving to be true:
"The dividing line has never been skill. It has always been agency - the capacity to perceive your situation accurately, make decisions under uncertainty, and act on those decisions before you're forced to."
-- @VittoStack
A great line from the article. I've been thinking about a lot of things after coming back from @EthereumDenver. I don't feel threatened by AI but rather see a tool to help. Trying to see where the road less traveled is and put the tool and technology to good use.
