# PublicAI

> Building the human layer of AI

PublicAI is a decentralized platform where users earn rewards by contributing data annotations and recordings for AI training.

PublicAI connects AI companies with a global network of contributors who earn crypto rewards for labeling, annotating, and validating training datasets. Users can upload audio recordings, annotate text and video, validate data quality through voting campaigns, and stake $PUBLIC tokens as quality collateral. The platform uses a Byzantine Fault Tolerance consensus layer to verify data accuracy across text, audio, video, and mapping formats.

- Type: Company
- Sector: Data & Analytics
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2023-01-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/publicai

## Products

- [PublicAI Data Hub](https://thegrid.id/profiles/publicai): PublicAI Data Hub is a decentralized AI training data platform that coordinates human contributors through campaign-based data collection, annotation, and quality validation using a Web3 incentive system. The platform uses a Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus mechanism to validate contributed datasets, with contributors staking $PUBLIC tokens as quality collateral and earning rewards when their responses align with consensus. A companion Chrome extension, Data Hunter, enables node operators to collect data passively through browsing and AI-assisted social media engagement, with earnings tracked directly in the Data Hub dashboard. Enterprise clients access curated multimodal datasets including ASR and TTS collections through an integrated Data API Suite and Vector Database. (DePin, Live, Main Product)

## Assets

- [PublicAI (PUBLIC)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/publicai): PUBLIC is the utility token of the PublicAI ecosystem. It is used for staking as collateral in data collection campaigns, governance voting, and earning platform rewards. Token issuance is tied to actual platform revenue through a revenue-driven mechanism, aligning token supply growth with data services demand. (Utility)

## Links

- [Main](https://publicai.io)
- [Blog](https://publicai.io/blog)
- [Documentation](https://docs.publicai.io/publicai-documentation)
- [Privacy policy](https://publicai.io/privacy)
- [Terms of Service](https://publicai.io/terms)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/PublicAI_)
- [Telegram](https://t.me/public_ai01)
- [Discord](https://discord.gg/publicai)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/PublicAI01)

## Legal

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- [Data Licensing & Disclaimers](https://about.thegrid.id/legal/data-licensing-and-disclaimers): Licensing models and disclaimers
- [Open Data (ODbL)](https://about.thegrid.id/legal/open-data): Open Database License terms and scope for The Grid's open data service.
- [Attribution Guidelines](https://about.thegrid.id/legal/open-data-attribution-guidelines): How to attribute The Grid's data when using the open data service.
- [Web Services Terms](https://about.thegrid.id/legal/web-services-terms): commercial Terms for using data services.
- [All Legal Documents](https://about.thegrid.id/legal): Full index of terms, policies, and disclosures

## Optional

- [TGS Field Descriptions](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/tgs-field-descriptions.md): Schema field definitions for The Grid's data model
- [TGS JSON Structure](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/tgs-json-structure.md): Data model structure and relationships
- [Product Type Definitions](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/product-type-definitions.md): Definitions for each product type
- [Product Type Classification](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/product-type-classification.md): Guide for classifying products into types
- [Grid MCP Guide](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/grid-search/skills/grid-query/references/grid-mcp-guide.md): How to query The Grid programmatically via MCP