Robots, AVs, voice systems – the future of AI exists in the real world. Real-world data is one of the most valuable subsets of IP and physical AI's biggest bottleneck. Today, @psdnai launches out of Story with a $15M seed round led by @a16zcrypto to try to solve just that ↴

Poseidon is working with the world’s leading AI companies to power the next wave of AI innovation with infra for collecting, curating, and licensing high-quality, real-world training data. Starting with physical AI, Poseidon supplies rights-cleared data at scale, powered by Story.

Led by a veteran team: @SPChinchali: UT Austin Prof, Stanford PhD, previously NASA JPL. Now Chief Scientist at Poseidon. @sarickshah: Previously Lead AI Engineer at Story, MS in AI from Johns Hopkins, ML at Lotusflare. Now Head of Product. @WhatTheLJW: Previously Head of Special Projects at Story, Co-lead / senior researcher of Harvard Crypto Lab and ex-ServiceNow BizOps lead, now VP of Strategy and Ops at Poseidon. @storysylee: Co-founder and CEO of Story. Will serve as Poseidon's founding president and lead the project’s strategic business development efforts.

Incubated and powered by Story’s purpose-built IP blockchain to register and license IP-cleared real-world data. Working with world’s top AI partners. Led by experts. Backed by the best. Explore more ↓