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On February 28th, OKX's new Jumpstart project QnA3.AI (GPT) ended its mining at 14:00 today and will start trading at 20:00. QnA3.AI recently announced that it has received the Solana Foundation MCM Grant and will work with Solana to build the AI and DePIN ecosystem.

According to DappRadar data, QnA3.AI's user activity (UAW) currently ranks first in the BNB Dapp list and seventh in the overall Dapp list. As an AI+CRYPTO Q&A platform, GPT fills the gap in AI targets. With Bitcoin breaking through $59,000, the market's enthusiasm may be reignited. As OKX is about to go live, let's quickly and comprehensively understand what QnA3.AI (GPT) is.

QnA3 Development Path

QnA3 team was established in January 2023 and achieved a huge transformation of its product from 0 to 1 in just one year: in June, QnA3 launched its Q&A function, with user numbers exceeding 10,000; in September, QnA3 launched a Telegram bot centered around intent, with user numbers exceeding 300,000; in December, QnA3 launched its data mining function, with QnA3's daily active users topping the BNB Chain No.1 leaderboard for over half a month, and user numbers exceeding 2 million. Today, QnA3's user numbers have skyrocketed to over 10 million.

QnA3's core positioning: AI Agent essential for Web3 world residents

According to the official introduction, QnA3 is an essential AI agent for residents of the Web3 world, assisting users in the full-lifecycle management of Web3 scenarios.

1) Information Management AI+Research = "RAG"

QnA3 is a leader and all-around player in the AI+search field in Web3.

Based on the general intelligent generation capabilities such as GPT fine-tuning model and search engines like Google and Microsoft Bing, QnA3 has professional data and proprietary knowledge barriers compared to generative AI models like ChatGPT. It has strong timeliness of information, can trace the source of information and effectively reduce illusions. Compared to traditional search engines like Google, QnA3 answers are accurate and reliable without information redundancy, and questions can be broken down and answers can be feedbacked.

Based on the understanding of LLM and rich experience in Pre Train, Post Train, Scaling Up, and Inference [1], QnA3 combines LLM with search organically. With excellent product power, engineering ability, and rapid iteration ability, QnA3 has taken the lead among many pioneers and established a stable leading position. The information management function can already meet the needs of different scenarios such as conceptual questions, real-time questions, inference questions, market analysis questions, and transaction questions.

The core technology principle of implementing "后发先至" (literally "latecomers first") is to maximize the use of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) technology while satisfying the requirements of "Web3 knowledge professionalism", "high real-time performance", and "strong relevance of question and answer content".

During the early stages of the project, QnA3 analyzed the general large-scale models represented by ChatGPT and identified one of the main issues with LLM being poor timeliness of content (the data range of the ChatGPT3.5 version released by OpenAI in early 2023 can only be counted up to September 2021), as well as potential illusion risks caused by the lack of indexes.

Essentially, LLM is unable to generate training data and content outside of its corpus, nor can it provide precise indexing and reference for generated content. QnA3's approach is to learn Meta. In 2020, Meta researchers introduced RAG to allow LLM to process and learn facts related to questions, combining prior knowledge of generative models with real-time retrieval and rich content from retrieval models.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Technology Principle [2]

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technology includes two stages: retrieval and generation.

Retrieval System: The retrieval process includes a Query Encoder and a Document Index. Two different BERT models are used to encode the requirement q and the document z as q(x) and d(z), respectively. Then, the maximum inner product search algorithm is used to obtain the document with the largest inner product, which is jointly input with the requirement to generate the output.

Generation System: In this process, the generator summarizes the output of the retriever to generate the final answer. The large model predicts the probability of the next word based on the input and generates the word with the highest probability. There are two ways to calculate the generation probability: 1) RAG-Sequence: predict using the same document, first determine the document and then calculate the probability of candidate words; 2) RAG-Token: predict using different documents, and the probability of each candidate word is the sum of the conditional probabilities of all documents.

QnA3 uses RAG as the core technology for AI+Research. With over ten years of data experience, the team has maintained a leading position in retrieval ability, response speed, and data source quality based on their understanding and application of data. RAG integrates external knowledge bases with model prior knowledge, and the rich and easily updated data in the external knowledge base effectively compensates for the disadvantages of large model data lag and illusion.

2) Asset Management AI+Trading = "AI Agent with Intent-Centric"

Trading is an essential part of the Web3 world that no resident can avoid. QnA3, based on the "intent-centric" concept proposed by Paradiam, has gained several insights by combining user and AI interaction with questions.

1) The establishment of user intent is gradual, but the initial intent is vague and even inaccurate.

2) The accuracy of intent directly determines the user's final experience, and this is largely determined by intent recognition.

3) The simpler, faster, and more secure the final implementation path is for the user, the better.

The mainstream scientific community divides the collaboration between humans and AI from basic to advanced into three modes: Embedding, Copilot, and Agents. In Copilot mode, humans lead the work, and AI assists in completing some tasks. In Agents mode, AI fully utilizes its "intelligence" and can demonstrate stronger abilities in task decomposition, tool selection, and progress control. Humans only need to set goals, provide resources, and supervise results. The specific implementation of the work can be fully delegated to AI, that is, "intent-centric".

Regarding the system framework of "intent-centric" practice, Lilian Weng, the head of the OpenAI security team, proposed that in large-scale autonomous agent systems based on models, LLM serves as the core controller and acts as the brain of the AI agent with reasoning ability, while the other three key components, Planning, Memory, and Tool Use, will endow LLM with the ability to perform more complex tasks [3]. This coincides with the approach of designing AI agents in QnA3 when implementing Intent-Centric [4].

After completing the information management work, the token technology analysis and trading function of QnA3 was launched, which solved the complicated problem of cross-product and multi-operation between user information and transactions. Users can seize market opportunities immediately after obtaining information, and complete transactions in the way that has the lowest transaction fees, slippage, and path, and is the safest through algorithms.

From the user experience and feedback in recent months, the QnA3 AI Agent designed with an "intent-centric" approach has demonstrated the ability to take action and assist users in completing various specific tasks, from information management to asset management. Users only need to set goals and wait for the results. It is evident that both ChatGPT and QnA3 have excellent performance in text understanding and reasoning abilities, and can provide detailed answers to questions raised by users. However, in the vertical field, QnA3 has a more significant advantage through RAG, and the QnA3 with behavior capabilities can also replace users to achieve "help him do" AI+Trading.

3) Rights Management AI+DePIN="Decentralized Machine Learning"

If we want to further improve the development level of Web3, there are two basic consensuses in the current market:

1) More Web2 users must be introduced to convert them;

2) Must be connected to the real economy.

In 2023, the growth of DePIN had a significant impact on the Web3 ecosystem. As the boundaries of DePIN expanded, it demonstrated the potential to become a consumer-facing application layer, similar to DeFi, gaming, and social media, with the potential for mass adoption that could drive demand from consumers for underlying chains or ecosystems.

2) Strong timeliness of information.

3) Easy to trace

The illusion problem of universal large models is unacceptable in the pursuit of high quality in segmented industries. QnA3 has exclusive data screening sources and screening mechanisms to avoid this problem through multiple processes.

AI+Research vs. Large-scale Model Technology

5) Professionalism as the core of quality.

The workflow requirements for subdivided industries are high quality, rewarding any quality improvement actions. Any artificial intelligence solutions applied to subdivided industries need to be constantly adjusted to improve quality. Response speed and feedback efficiency are crucial for quality. The high compatibility of the general model itself can lead to quality differences here. It can be imagined that if the artificial intelligence model of a rocket is replaced by a general model like GPT-4, the result will be catastrophic. This quality gap will inevitably lead to specialized adjustments.

Compared to Google

QnA3 and traditional search engines like Google have the following core advantages:

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When inputting a question, traditional search engines present multiple parallel links interspersed with a large number of advertisements. However, QnA3 combines the most relevant links to directly generate concise answers, improving information acquisition efficiency and reducing keyword queries, filtering, link clicks, and page browsing. This allows Web3 users to directly understand the truth in a noisy market environment and massive information, and make decisions through concise and personalized answers.

2) Fine search in segmented fields.

QnA3 serves as a Web3 knowledge base and AI+Research tool, allowing users to perform precise searches in the Web3 industry for more targeted results.

Based on the understanding ability of large models, QnA3 can gradually break down and clarify user questions and accurately control user needs. When searching in Google for what and why type of questions, Google can handle them with ease. However, when it comes to more complex questions such as "Is it worth buying a certain token in its current development stage?" "Please conduct a technical analysis of XX token," and "Compare the advantages and disadvantages of BTC and ETH," QnA3 can clearly provide better answers than Google. QnA3's engine has a more powerful ability to understand, summarize, and expand questions, undoubtedly giving it a stronger competitive edge.

4) Feedback function

After generating answers, users can provide feedback on their accuracy through QnA3's feedback mechanism, which strengthens the learning process and helps improve the model's accuracy. QnA3 interacts with users on-chain through a points-based system.

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