
Nick van Eck
CEO and Co-Founder at Agora
Nick van Eck is co-founder and CEO of Agora and was previously a partner at General Catalyst. He graduated from the University of Virginia.
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The Agora API. Track AUSD metrics, register accounts, and create routes to mint and redeem AUSD from fiat or stablecoins. https://t.co/IdPVLYKInj
Pluralis-8B is done, the first pipeline-parallel training over WAN with our new Agora system. We maintained approximately 20% MFU throughout the run, with a completely dynamic pool of devices utilising networking speeds 100-1000x slower than a datacenter setup
Agora launched at Oslo Freedom Forum. Bitcoin fundraising for human rights defenders. No gatekeepers. No middlemen. Just people helping people. #SendFreedom
$5,000+ donated in the first few days of Agora. Every satoshi went directly to the campaign creator. Zero fees. Zero middlemen. That's Bitcoin working as intended. #SendFreedom #Agora
Agora has quietly been building one of the best team's in all of fintech. Love to see that continue with the addition of Tanya. Big things ahead this year. https://x.com/Nick_van_Eck/status/2069421564941025358
Former Robinhood Crypto COO Tanya Denisova joins stablecoin issuer Agora as head of operations
The 8B model currently training on Agora is 350B tokens in and continuing to converge. The top level metrics and evals look almost exactly like a centralised run. But; - 133 external contributors total bringing 4090's, 5090's, L40S/RTX 6000 and RTX 6000 Pros. These are cards that people actually ow
Decentralized AI training networks like @Pluralis' Agora are the only true counterbalance to centralized AI. https://x.com/Pluralis/status/2065899910080115117
What if supporting democracy activists in Uganda, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe — anywhere — required zero permissions? No corporate approval. No bank sign-off. No geographic restrictions. Just people helping people. That's why we built Agora. #BitcoinSavesLives #SendFreedom
SEXTOU DA $DOG | MERCADO EM PÂNICO O QUE FAZER AGORA? https://t.co/27lN3o0UvV


