Machine Consciousness Happy Hour hosted by NEAR x Faction

​Do androids dream of electric sheep? As the lines between artificial intelligence and true sentience blur, join the minds of today shaping the minds of tomorrow. We invite you to join us for drinks and a stimulating night of networking and conversation at ETHSF! Stop by and hear what our hosts and sponsors have been working on:

​NEAR is the blockchain for AI that can scale forever and handle transactions across any chain. It's positioned to enable private and verifiable AI inference, training, and creates incentives for open-source model development.

​Faction is an early stage crypto venture fund, focusing on Seed through Series B investments. Faction is a joint venture with Lightspeed Venture Partners.

​Nexus is building a world supercomputer by leveraging the latest advancements in cryptography, engineering and science. Nexus is backed by premier investors and has a team of world-leading experts developing and deploying the Nexus Layer 1, the Nexus Network and Nexus zkVM in support of the mission to enable the Verifiable Internet.

​Hyperbolic is the decentralized AI cloud for open-source AI—the infrastructure powering the world’s leading AI projects. We provide a unified platform for AI applications and agents to build at scale.