What is Heurist's target positioning? How does it differ from other cloud computing aggregation service platforms? What considerations are behind its technology framework based on ZK Stack and elastic chains?

Written by: Haotian

Let’s briefly discuss the recently funded $2M @heurist_ai. What is its target positioning? How does it differ from other cloud computing aggregation service platforms? What considerations are behind its technology framework based on ZK Stack and elastic chains?

Honestly, I am quite apprehensive about seeing large projects in the AI space that have comprehensive service frameworks and overly luxurious investment lineups. What makes Heurist feel different with its smaller and more focused approach?

1) Heurist positions itself as a decentralized GPU resource aggregation platform, a service direction that is not unfamiliar to everyone. Previous AI computing service platforms, including @ionet and @AethirCloud, are similar. After all, compared to the high costs and inflexibility of web2 cloud services like AWS, a cloud service platform utilizing the web3 token economy and distributed technology framework, akin to an Airbnb model, can meet most of the needs of small and medium-sized cloud computing demanders.

Thus, the aggregation of computing power is a common characteristic of most computing service platforms;

2) However, the potential of competing computing service platforms lies not only in the scale of GPU resource aggregation but also in whether it can be implemented and applied. Heurist's differentiation lies in its focus on decentralized inference reasoning, fine-tuning, and other application scenarios, including AI Agents, AI NFT generation, AI dialogue, AI search, and other more easily implementable application scenarios.

In other words, what it aims to do is more web3 Native, focusing more on the service layer of application scenario implementation rather than being locked into a grand decentralized computing service platform that directly competes with AWS;

3) Heurist has chosen the ZK Stack and Serverless elastic chain mechanism, essentially wanting to highlight the "lightweight" characteristic.

Using ZK Stack's zkVM can process and verify transactions, its Prover network can generate Proofs, and the DAC data availability committee has the high throughput and low on-chain storage cost characteristics of the Validium model, etc. The elastic scaling mechanism based on Serverless technology architecture can truly reduce costs and leverage the "lightweight" advantages that must be based on ZK technology.

How to understand this? The traditional server service model has fixed server hardware, maintenance, and other fixed costs. The elastic chain's main idea is a Scale-to-Zero dynamic load adjustment mechanism, where you only pay during actual inference, do not reserve resources, and reduce computing resources to zero when not in use.

This is a highly resource-scheduling-dependent elastic technology, which would be fundamentally impossible to achieve without the flexibility of ZK Proofs as a basis. At the same time, the key is that this mechanism can further refine and compress costs, Pay as you go;

4) In addition to the deep bundling of the underlying ZK Stack technology framework, Heurist has many special connections with zkSync. For example, it received airdrop incentives from the zkSync Hackathon, marking a beneficial exploration of zk Stack services in the AI field. Within the zkSync ecosystem, it will have the same ecological positioning height and subsequent series of growth incentive support as well-known projects like @grvt_io and @sophon.

Recently, zkSync's 3 billion $ZK incentive ecological support program is in full swing, which is a tangible benefit. Heurist has also launched an NFT minting event with OKX Wallet, rewarding 100,000 ZK tokens to the first 1,000 participants. Such activities might go unnoticed at ordinary times, but under the overall backdrop of zkSync's large-scale token distribution, they will receive significant weighting.

That’s all.

In summary, the AI+DePIN track has drawn in everyone from ordinary retail investors to VCs, all being integrated into the bullish market expectations of a main upward wave, leading to a brief stagnation and adjustment influenced by the market later on.

Projects that are more web3 Native, more integrated with web3 technology service architectures, and even deeply bound to ecological growth will shed the illusory glamorous visions and become more pure and pragmatic.

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