AO: The Hyper Parallel Computer You Need to Know - Sam Williams, Ep. 255

The Blockcrunch Podcast

Today Jason is joined by Arweave Co-Founder & CEO Sam Williams. In this episode the two discuss the founding story of Arweave, solving infinite scalability, smart contract transferability, as well as breaking down actor oriented computing. Sam also explains the possibility of on-chain AI training with AO, AO’s ostensibility, what the ecosystem allows for developers. Plus; the two explore the blockchain trilemma and AO’s roadmap—enjoy!

Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.

Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(04:02) The history of AO

(09:51) Infinite scalability

(14:57) Smart contract transferability

(18:04) ELI5: Actor Oriented computing

(19:41) Composability trade-offs

(27:32) Removing on-chain AI training restraints with AO

(28:58) Security trade-offs

(32:31) The blockchain trilemma

(36:34) AO’s extensibility

(42:22) AO ecosystem builders

(45:09) The AO roadmap

(49:59) Outro

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