Launching Tether & The Journey So Far

Excited to share the story of Tether a new concept we are validating out of BetterFutureLabs

Welcome to the new Bug Driven Developers this week! If you enjoy this post, forward it to your developer friends so they can join us.

Here’s what I got for you today:

  • Launch of Tether - The Data Exchange for Agentic AI

  • Tokenization - a crucial concept to understand for building AI systems

  • Touching Linux is good for you

Let's start off this week by talking about Tether

I’m excited to share we are launching a new product Tether for validation out of BetterFutureLabs.

Tether is the result of extensive research and development we have been doing in multi-agent and agentic systems, which we started last November. Through this work, we’ve uncovered a key insight: AI, particularly agentic systems, consumes data in a fundamentally different way than humans do. As AI continues to evolve, it’s becoming clear that AI systems, rather than humans, will be the primary consumers of data in the future. However, most existing data sources are tailored for human use at some point in the data pipeline, not for AI Systems.

Tether is here to change that. We’re building a data exchange specifically designed for agentic AI systems to be the end consumers of data, making it more accessible and legible for these advanced AI models and systems.

We are currently partnering with multiple respected data providers to be listed on our platform (5 data provider partnerships so far), and we’re looking for developers interested in becoming Beta users.

If you’re interested in joining the Tether Beta program, you can sign up here.

To learn more about Tether, check out our recently published podcast

📖 Tokenization

Tokenization is vital for AI systems as it breaks text into smaller units (tokens), allowing models to process and interpret language more effectively. For AI developers, understanding tokenization is key to optimizing data usage and enhancing model performance.

If you’re interested in learning more about tokenization, check out this new course by Andrew Ng.

😂 Meme of the Week

Instead of touching grass this week go and touch Linux

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Thanks,

Justin

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