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A few weeks back, Yupp announced a $33M seed round led by a16z's crypto arm, with participation from heavyweights like Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp, and Coinbase Ventures.
Beyond just being a notable raise, the platform’s core premises prove quite interesting. Yupp intends to better the process of human feedback in AI training, and repurpose that feedback to establish a more objective benchmark for which to rate AI performance by.
Human feedback already proves essential to refining AI model training, but currently it’s largely uncredited, unrewarded, and controlled by a handful of tech giants. Yupp's approach is to flip this dynamic, using onchain infra to make feedback transparent, auditable, and financially rewarding for users.
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