Erik Voorhees, an OG Bitcoiner and CEO of cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift, took to his account on social media platform
Erik Voorhees, an OG Bitcoiner and CEO of cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift, took to his account on social media platform
Earlier this week, Voorhees criticized Grok’s chatbot for being centralized and closed source.
Voorhees has created his own AI Venice together with a former Binance executive.
Grok rivals Venice AI
In a tweet thread, Voorhees stated that he and his team launched Venice AI “for the purpose of unfettered civilizational advancement.”
He stated that his product is similar to Grok, ChatGPT and other similar AIs, but “without all the Orwellian stuff.” Voorhees explained what he meant by this, stating that Venice does not spy on its users, does not censor conversations and “does not inject prejudice, securityism or political propaganda.”
“Venice offers you direct and unfiltered communication with artificial intelligence,” added the creator of Venice. So far, the product helps users generate text, images and computer code. Like Elon Musk, Erik Voorhees tweeted that Venice was created especially to support freedom of expression: “Freedom of expression = human flourishing.”
Voorhees and former crypto executive build Venice
The team behind Venice consists of Voorhees himself, an unnamed CTO, and Teana Baker-Taylor, a former Binance, HSBC, and Circle executive. Additionally, there is a small but powerful team of developers, Voorhees tweeted.
Earlier this week, Voorhees tweeted in a Musk post about Grok that this chatbot remains centralized and closed source. He then began promoting Venice AI.
However, a Bitcoin advocate, Jeff Kirdeikis, tweeted in response that he had tried using Venice but it turned out no better than OpenAI’s ChatGPT “when asked about many controversial topics.”
