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Below is a recap of what we have achieved last week:

Development

Last week, the R&D team focused on the development and testing of iteration 1: We started code review and debugging for iteration 1. The plan is to build a minimum P2P AI training network by the end of April that will support TensorFlow CPU version and GPU version.

Architecture Design

Analyzing alternative concepts for AI storage data encryption mechanisms;

Analyzing alternative concepts for decentralized and distributed storage; analyzing key code and key points where there might be technical difficulties;

Testing

Iteration 1 AI test use case design: we have finished design of the first round of test use cases and will start their evaluation this week;

Iteration 1 testing environment: building and verification;

Development

Last week, we focused on review of the AI code and added some bottom layer functions, in particular, we reviewed:

AI users submitting AI training tasks function code;

AI users submitting AI training tasks in batches function code;

AI users viewing AI training task status function code;

AI users terminating AI training task function code;

AI users viewing memory nodes status function code;

And we added:

Message hash filtering function coding;

Message session ID function coding;

Node ID initialization function coding;

Container task startup script coding.

Marketing and Community

Highlights

Veteran Global AI Leader Dongyan Wang Joins DeepBrain Chain as Chief AI Officer, Executive VP of Silicon Valley Research Center

Dongyan Wang

DeepBrain Chain, the world’s first Artificial Intelligence computing platform powered by blockchain has announced today that it has proudly recruited Dr. Dongyan Wang, a well-known veteran global AI leader in Silicon Valley as Chief AI Officer of DeepBrain Chain Inc., Chief AI Officer of DeepBrain Chain Organization, and Executive VP of DeepBrain Chain Silicon Valley AI + Blockchain Research Center.

Dr. Wang will lead DeepBrain Chain’s global team on cutting-edge AI technologies development, AI and Blockchain integration, and AI applications on the leading DeepBrain Chain AI ecosystem.

Dr. Wang has almost 20 years of silicon valley experience in artificial intelligence, business intelligence and data science, leading world class, industry award winning, global high tech organizations as senior executive for Global Fortune 500 enterprises (Cisco, NetApp, Midea Group, Samsung) and a successful startup. He has extensive experience in AI platform, AI products, AI business applications, advanced analytics, data science, big data, and a great variety of cloud and on premise enterprise applications.

Dr. Wang says, “I feel very excited to join DeepBrain Chain. As a long time AI person and investor, I firmly believe AI and Blockchain are the two major megatrends for the next 20 years. DeepBrain Chain is at the golden cross of AI and Blockchain. We are going to build an AI+Blockchain ecosystem to significantly lower the entry barrier and cost of AI applications by securely sharing computing power, AI models and data on the blockchain. I hope my years of experience in industry will help DeepBrain Chain become the best enabling platform and ecosystem for practical, customer centric AI applications that brings real value to change the world. Therefore, I am going to invest my commitment into the future of Deepbrain Chain.”

More information about Dr. Wang please go to: Medium Article，LinkedIn Profile

Events

United States

DeepBrain Chain was invited to attend an event at Stanford University hosted by Epiphany Exchange, a platform built and developed on the NEO ecosystem. During the event, DeepBrain Chain exchanged ideas with other blockchain company leaders. Christine Chang, President of North America DeepBrain Chain, discussed the prediction of blockchain in 2018 and the application of blockchain in the current market.

Christine Chang is having a discussion with other blockchain leaders during the event

Guangzhou, China

DeepBrain, one cooperative partner in the DeepBrain Chain ecosystem, attended the 2018 Guangzhou International Toy Fair. This exhibition was held at Poly World Trade Center Expo in Guangzhou from April 8th to 10th, 2018. DeepBrain launched 6 major AI voice interactive software and hardware integrated chip products for the global children market. Those products met the demand for different price levels and have attracted the attention of many exhibitors.

DeepBrain at the Toy Fair

Media

The article points out that in the exhibition, DeepBrain focused on showing “Three Operation Systems” and “Six Hardware Solutions.” Its products are designed for the global children market. DeepBrain also demonstrated its core technologies in all aspects for new and existing customers and overseas visitors.

Global AI Leader Dongyan Wang Joins DeepBrain Chain

Dr. Wang joins DeepBrain Chain as Chief AI Officer, Executive VP of Silicon Valley Research Center. The article was published on many Chinese and foreign media outlets. Chinese media include Netease, ifeng.com, yesky.com and tuoniaox.com. Foreign media include Coinmarkets, Crossroadstoday, and Crypotoreader.

DeepBrain Chain was invited to attend the Russia Congress BlockchainRF-2018

DeepBrain Chain attended the blockchain conference held by RACIB（Russian Association of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain) between March 27th and 28th, 2018. The article mentions that DeepBrain Chain attended a closed door meeting with the Chairman of RACIB, the latter thought highly of DeepBrain Chain’s project and the future of “AI+Blockchain.” At the same time, a Russian media also reported on the participation of the DeepBrain Chain at the summit.

Community

DeepBrain Chain has announced the coming Meetup in its Korean Community

DeepBrain Chain has announced that the first Meetup event will be held in Seoul, Korea on April 27th. It is also the on-boarding ceremony for Dr. Wang joining us as the Chief AI Officer, Executive VP of Silicon Valley Research Center. Dr. Wang Dongyan will deliver a keynote speech during the event. After we announced the news in the Korean community, over 200 people signed up in just two days. The Meetup was also reported by a Korean media DeepBrain Chain team has been in Korea to prepare for the Meetup.

Poster of DeepBrain Chain’s first Meet Up event

Meetup Sign Up

Event held successfully: “Find the Global AI Leader of DeepBrain Chain”

Last week, global AI leader Dr. Wang Dongyan joined DeepBrain Chain as the Chief AI Officer, Executive VP of Silicon Valley Research Center. We hosted an event to encourage community members to find out our who is our global AI leader. The community members actively participated in and left messages on Reddit and Twitter. We received a total of over 80 Tweets and 300 Reddit messages. Reddit user u/Tonyho90 successfully found Dr. Wang Dongyan’s LinkedIn and won 5000 DBC awards through the clues we provided.

Reddit post: “Find the Global AI Leader of DeepBrain Chain”

The official website V1.0 has been well-received by our community

DeepBrain Chain’s website relaunched with the registration and DBPoints functions. The number of users registered on the website reached 600 in just one week. The community members are very interested in DBPoints look forward to more events in the future.

Current situation of our community: