NanoGPT AI Aggregator Pay with Crypto | Podcast #208

Milan from NanoGPT joins Kenton and Denny to discuss his journey from central banking to building a privacy-focused AI platform powered by crypto. They explore NanoGPT's integration with THORChain, the future of AI payments, and why privacy matters in both finance and artificial intelligence.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Intro

00:03:00 Kenton update, Churn, 3.19.1

00:04:00 Marketing update, signed an agreement with Sal the Agorist and Mark Edge ASK

00:06:00 Every single person watching that show should be using THORChain

00:07:00 Milan starts, NanoGPT

00:09:00 Milan worked for the central bank

00:11:00 The central bank was anti-crypto

00:12:00 The central bank wanted a button to stop transactions and KYC and the money issuing to be in their hands

00:13:00 Why did you decide to work at a central bank

00:16:00 Kenton had a friend that worked with the Bank of Canada

00:17:00 Milan did not have a good breakup

00:19:00 Milan thought subscriptions for AI models was a terrible idea

00:20:00 An early user was Erik Voorhees

00:21:00 NanoGPT has grown to include all AI models

00:22:00 Claude pulled Fable access for everyone

00:23:00 NanoGPT is an AI aggregator, 80 providers

00:26:00 NanoGPT is the same price or cheaper

00:27:00 Kenya man used Nano for medical questions

00:28:00 Neobanks are getting shut down, do you run that risk?

00:29:00 Big providers make a loss with subscriptions — many people share a subscription

00:31:00 They know what we are doing

00:32:00 How do customers choose what AI model to use? Automatic or custom?

00:34:00 AutoModel checks what kind of question it is and decides the prompt difficulty

00:38:00 Website feature

00:42:00 CEX story of getting paused

00:43:00 Iranian linkage because of $32

00:44:00 THORChain and NanoGPT are a great partnership

00:47:00 How did the Kenya man figure out you existed?

00:48:00 NanoGPT and Venice are competitors?