It is the world of Sam Altman – and more humans live there.
Although he may be best known as the CEO of Openai, behind the scenes, he built World, a new social network.
The application is available in more than a hundred countries, including the United States, and is used by nearly 25 million humans.
In October, he unveiled his latest version, World 3.0, which he charged as a “super application” for humans, similar to China WeChat or Latin America Rappi. It includes a new version centered on the man in the Apple App Store for mini applications. The world defines them as “daily applications optimized for real humans”. Anyone can create a mini application, which runs in the global application, and is part of a global ID of a user – its unique digital code – the portfolio and contacts.
It includes a new version centered on the man in the Apple App Store for mini applications. The world defines them as “daily applications optimized for real humans”.
Anyone can create a mini application, which runs in the global application, and is part of a global ID of a user – its unique digital code – the portfolio and contacts.
WORLD announced a new pilot program “Developer Rewards” on Thursday, which will start on April 1. The program will distribute the equivalent of $ 300,000, paid for WLD tokens – the native digital currency of the world, which is converted to $ 0.85 per token – on a monthly basis to qualify the developers of qualified applications over a three -month pilot period.
The pilot program follows the launch of “World Build”, an incubator program introduced in January created in partnership with Friend With Benefits, a social network for the creative ensemble of Crypto, the Alchemy Web3 platform and the investment funds focused on crypto-axes on Bain Capital, the Blockchain capital and the Variant Fund.
The program, which takes place from February to May, will include hackathons and pensions and will end with a demonstration day with investors in New York.
One of these developers, Diego Estevez, 24, has built a mini application called Credit which offers instant microcredit to world users in Argentina. The application does not do Base on credit scores, guarantees or income verification to grant loans to people, who start as low as $ 5, and are capped at $ 100.
“As they reimburse, they can access increasingly large loans,” said Esttevez à Bi. “Loan progression is structured in such a way that you cannot refund a small loan and then fail on a larger loan.”
Essentially, there is no way to play The ESTEVEVE system to earn fast money.
Estevez said nearly 100,000 users have downloaded and opened the application since its launch and that 15,000 loans have been issued. Although the credit is anonymous and does not follow how users spend money, ESTEZ think they use it for everyday necessities such as grocery, transport and medicine. He said he knew that users became dependent on the assault on the messages he receives whenever the application breaks down.
The sudden success of credit is a reflection of the realities of the world in development where many people have access to the Internet and the telephone, but no significant way to obtain credit. It can also reveal what motivates an application ecosystem built on human necessity rather than profit, such as Apple’s App Store.
World aims to develop its network through initiatives such as mini applications. The millions that use them already create “a virtuous cycle where you can now do more on the network, and because of this, more people join,” Business Business Insider Tiago Sada, the product manager for humanity, the Word Insider construction company. He noted that mini applications have already started to attract the attention of investors.
The world’s first goal is to reach 1 billion users. From there, it will focus on 10 billion, said Sada. Each human may not end up on the world, but Sada said that the network’s objective was to ensure that everyone has at least the possibility of registering.
World had its share of difficulties. He put heads with regulators in countries such as Kenya, Spain and South Korea for its use of biometric data. He is also confronted with criticisms to attract users in desperate developing countries of the WLD subsidies they receive after having registered.
“To date, the new technology underlying the world has enabled nearly 12 million people to safely prove their humanity online and to participate in the global digital economy,” wrote a world representative to BI by e-mail. “The big change is never easy (ESP for governments), but we work through the challenges and will continue to build.”
Sada sees it as the only solution to the existential AI crisis.
“We sometimes call the world as the pile of freedom,” he said. It is anonymous, self-caracteristic and lives on user phones because “we want to live in a world where people are freer than they are today”.
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