Jesus Rodriguez

Jesus Rodriguez is the CEO and co-founder of IntoTheBlock, a platform focused on enabling market intelligence and institutional DeFi solutions for crypto markets. He is also the co-founder and President of Faktory, a generative AI platform for business and consumer apps. Jesus also founded The Sequence, one of the most popular AI newsletters in the world. In addition to his operational work, Jesus is a guest lecturer at Columbia University and Wharton Business School and is a very active writer and speaker.

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Opinion

A Difficult Truth: The Unspoken Mismatch of Web3 and Generative AI

Generative AI workloads are designed to be computationally intensive, running on highly parallelizable GPUs. What role does that leave for blockchain? Jesus Rodriguez, of IntoTheBlock, explores one possible solution.

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Opinion

AI Should Be Decentralized, but How?

The case for greater transparency and verifiability in AI. But is decentralization the best way to achieve that and is feasible in practice? Jesus Rodriguez, of IntoTheBlock, says the technical challenges are tremendous.

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Opinion

How DeFi Protocols Are Building More Granular and Extensible Capabilities

The trend towards "micro-primitives" creates protocols that are more extensible, programmable and composable. But it also creates greater vulnerability at a time when protocols are under increasingly hack-attack.

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Opinion

A New Blockchain for Generative AI?

Web3 architectures aren’t built for AI, but they could be, says Jesus Rodriguez, CEO of IntoTheBlock. And there are risks if we don’t build.

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Opinion

The Next ChatGPT Won’t Be in Web3 Unless Some Things Change

Web3 infrastructures do not possess the compute, data or data science framework foundations to embrace generative AI. But it’s possible to build them, says Jesus Rodriguez, CEO of IntoTheBlock.

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Opinion

A Pragmatic View of ChatGPT in a Web3 World

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing every aspect of our daily lives. What will it mean for Web3? IntoTheBlock's Jesus Rodriquez learns from the machine.

The home page for the OpenAI ChatGPT app (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Opinion

DeFi Is the Way Forward, but It Needs to Evolve

The technical foundation of DeFi has proven to be incredibly resilient to the catastrophic market events of the last few months. The opportunity for building a new generation of financial services on DeFi rails has never been bigger, but the space needs to address some notable challenges.

Crypto Currency Finance Technology. DeFi Speech Bubble Announcement (Andrey Popov/Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Opinion

The Machine Learning Powering Generative Art NFTs

Generative art has been one of the quintessential machine-learning use cases, but only recently has the space achieved mainstream prominence.

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Opinion

Why DeFi Insurance Needs a New Design

Decentralized finance offers a blank canvas for reimagining markets insurance with programmability and decentralization as core constructs, says the CEO of IntoTheBlock.

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Opinion

The Era of Easy DeFi Yields Is Over

Alpha in DeFi is about to get a lot scarcer (although still super attractive). Luckily, risk management will eventually get much simpler.

There's less juice to go around in DeFi now. Is it worth the squeeze? (j4p4n/OpenClipArt)

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