The Future of AI Data: Decentralized, Crowd-Powered & Blockchain-Proven | Max Li, OORT (#64)

What if anyone, anywhere could contribute to the next generation of AI and get paid for it?

In this episode of the DePINed Podcast, we talk to Max Li, founder and CEO of OORT — a decentralized data collection network with over 350,000 contributors across 100+ countries and 100,000+ active nodes. OORT is building the global infrastructure for verifiable, crowd-sourced AI data — from speech to video to edge cases.

We cover:

• Why synthetic data isn’t enough for next-gen AI
• How OORT rewards real-world contributors and node operators
• Tokenomics, staking & the upcoming “TikTok for AI data”
• Why Africa and LATAM are the next big data economies
• Lessons from scaling one of the largest AI data DePINs

Don’t miss this deep dive into one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in the DePIN ecosystem 🎙️