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The future of the cloud starts with all of us. Are you ready to take back the cloud?

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Reclaim the Cloud, Onchain - "The Defiant"
The internet was supposed to set us free. It promised an open frontier where anyone could build, connect, and create –– a network owned by all of us, not governed by the few. But somewhere along the…
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November 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
From understanding the long-distance calls of killer whales to the close-range exchanges of crows, this is how we unlock the language of the natural world.

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Filecoin Foundation Announces One Million Cultural Artifacts Preserved on the Filecoin Network | Filecoin Foundation
Filecoin Foundation (FF) today announced a new wave of cultural and scientific datasets that are now being preserved on the Filecoin network.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Decentralized storage ensures:

✓ Results are reproducible and verifiable
✓ Data integrity is cryptographically proven
✓ Long-term availability doesn't depend on single institutions

In collaboration with @ffdweb.org, ESP demonstrates how serious science works.
October 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
So why store the evaluation dataset on Filecoin?

Because AI breakthroughs depend on accessible data. If BEANS-Zero disappeared (server failure, lost funding, shutdown), no one could verify ESP's results or build on this research.

Open science requires open infrastructure.
October 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
What the trained AI can now do:

– Identify thousands of species by their vocalizations

– Predict sex and life stages from sound

– Uncover communication patterns scientists couldn't analyze before

– All using natural language prompts (no coding required)
October 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
BEANS-Zero is a benchmark dataset of bioacoustic recordings: whale songs, bird calls, frog croaks across hundreds of species.

ESP used this dataset to evaluate NatureLM-audio, the first AI foundation model for bioacoustics.
October 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM