About Exponent

Exponent AI's Analyst serves as the natural language interface for Web3, delivering advanced insights through Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) models, integrations with all data points relevant to Web3, and utilizing proprietary reasoning frameworks that allow the agent to accurately analyze real-time information from Web3 in natural language.

Why OpenGradient?

OpenGradient’s mission is to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, streamlining AI deployment, and ensuring universal access to cutting-edge AI technologies. OpenGradient aims to scale AI compute on-chain, enhancing security and verifiability while enabling seamless AI workflows, model hosting and deployment.

At the forefront of Programmable AI, OpenGradient empowers developers and researchers to leverage verifiable AI inference and open-sourced models to create smarter apps and more sophisticated agents on-chain.

In addition to providing secure, interoperable, and scalable decentralized AI infrastructure, OpenGradient offers a suite of powerful, developer-friendly tools, including the Model Hub and the OpenGradient SDK, that make hosting, building, composing, and integrating AI on-chain both seamless and efficient. 

Furthermore, OpenGradient has released advanced LLMs tailored for DeFi applications. It has been a remarkable experience working with this team that has deep expertise in developing the complete technology stack and applying machine learning to Web3 verticals. 

Demonstrating a New Paradigm for Delegating Intelligence

LLMs are powering AI Agents, but they cannot do it alone without utilizing external tools. The best tools are often other, domain-specific ML models focused on specialized tasks. This integration leverages OpenGradient’s Model Hub for storing and verifying ML models, enabling a form of intelligence delegation – when higher-level work is synthesized and then dispatched from a high-level model to a low-level model. Exponent Analyst will dispatch tasks to these specialized models, showcasing a pattern of preference for more contained, task-specific ML driven predictions.

Under the Hood of the Integration

Imagine a user querying Exponent Analyst about a short-term bullish prediction for $SUI. The AI Agent interprets the query, filters user demand and thus proposes utilizing the "SUI/USDT 6-Hr Return Forecast" model from OpenGradient. The agent dispatches the task to the model, which processes the data and returns a forecast. Exponent Analyst then interprets the results and delivers actionable insights in natural language, such as a short-term price signal for $SUI. This seamless integration showcases the power of combining task-specific delegation and collaborative intelligence, from one AI to another.

Unlike other Agentic systems, Exponent Analyst is capable of dispatching more complex tasks to multi-step processes and tool calling simultaneously, with 100% accuracy in using the correct tool for the asset and topic chosen by the user. Here it proposes using OpenGradient ML models as tools

As the analyses are completed, Exponent Analyst not only correctly executes the prediction, but also interprets the result in natural language for each step, before summarizing the entire tree of analysis in one final step. All the while giving users full transparency in its interpretation and accuracy.

What this means for Web3 AI Agents

This collaboration sets a new precedent for Web3 AI Agent development patterns, where smarter agents route tasks to more specialized, reliable models. By distributing work among niche-focused tools, this integration fosters a scalable, modular, and efficient approach to AI-driven insights. This approach highlights the potential for AI to AI interactions to deliver more precise and reliable solutions, setting the stage for practical and impactful utility from Web3 AI.

Where Exponent AI utilizes OpenGradient models for ML-driven predictions, other trading-focused AI agents could use Exponent Analyst for its natural language insights.

Partnership between Exponent AI and OpenGradient

Exponent AI is excited to further explore the capabilities of OpenGradient's Model Hub, particularly its use in verifiable ML models for volatility and price forecasting. With Exponent Analyst already supporting over 1,000 assets and counting, integrating these ML models promises to enhance our ability to deliver more accurate and tailored insights to users.

"This partnership also represents the beginning of a broader collaboration to refine the development pattern of AI Agents delegating tasks to specialized ML models. We are committed to continuing this journey, advancing the state of AI in Web3, and creating more meaningful, practical, and impactful solutions for the ecosystem."

About Exponent AI

Exponent is building a natural language layer of web3, revolutionizing information networks for AI and Web3 natives. It has successfully launched Analyst.chat, a fully-developed AI agent chat interface platform that takes Web3 questions and provides data-backed research and analysis reports in real time. Exponent recently introduced Vector3, an open family of decentralized LLMs and RAG network for Web3 AI Agents. 

Exponent’s mission is to be the leading infrastructure developer that advances the flow of information between Artificial Intelligence and Web3, providing increased access and enhancing capabilities to both fields by using advanced and novel implementations of Artificial Intelligence and Decentralized Infrastructure. 

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About OpenGradient

OpenGradient is a leading decentralized platform unlocking scalable AI compute on-chain, empowering developers to build secure, intelligent, and optimized decentralized applications. We provide on-chain AI model hosting, permissionless composability, secure inference execution, and seamless access to accelerate open-source AI and foster next-gen applications.

Headquartered in New York City, the team comprises global talent with deep expertise in AI/ML, blockchain, crypto, and Web3 ecosystem.

Learn more at https://opengradient.ai and follow us on X, Discord, and LinkedIn.