Heurist Monthly Update: September 2024

Welcome to our September roundup! This month has been packed with exciting developments, new partnerships, and community-driven initiatives. Let’s dive into the highlights.

1. New Website, New Look

We’re thrilled to announce a complete overhaul of our digital presence:

• Our homepage at heurist.ai has received a stunning facelift.
• Official applications including Heurist Imagine, Pondera, and Heurist Search have all been revamped to improve user experience.

These updates reflect our commitment to providing a seamless and intuitive interface for our growing community.

2. ZK Fest Campaign in Collaboration with ZKsync and ZyFi

Heurist proudly participated in the ZK Fest Elastic Chain Stage, a two-week celebration from September 2nd to 13th showcasing the vibrant ZKsync ecosystem. Our innovative AI-powered art festival blended blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, and community engagement.

Key highlights:

• Over 20,000 NFTs minted during the event
• 200,000 ZK Tokens distributed in multiple reward categories
• Partnership with Zyfi provided gasless minting experience for selected communities

View all the artwork: zkImagine Collection on Element

We’re continuing our create-to-earn campaign with reduced ZK token rewards. Join the campaign: Heurist Imagine Campaign

3. Flux Model Support

We’ve integrated the state-of-the-art image generation model, Flux.1 dev, developed by Black Forest Labs, into Heurist Imagine and our mining software. This model excels at prompt following, text generation, and image composition, matching the performance of closed-source alternatives such as Midjourney.

SD miner version 1.4.0 has been released to support this model, along with other exciting updates including Docker support, better scheduling, and improved documentation. We recommend running Flux with NVIDIA RTX 4090 or A100 GPUs.

Create with Flux at Heurist Imagine

4. Partnership Growth

We’re excited to announce new partnerships and collaborations with existing partners:

1. Spheron: Leveraging Spheron’s scalable compute solutions to power our platform, enabling seamless access to open-source AI models at reduced costs. A dedicated Rental tab for Spheron GPUs will be available on Heurist.
2. Mintair: Heurist miner is now supported by Mintair, simplifying mining participation with their one-click node running service. This makes it easy for people to rent a 4090 GPU and run Heurist mining hands-free.
3. Arbus: The ultimate AI-powered Web3 research app is opening to exclusive partner communities, with Heurist as the first community. Arbus Terminal early access is available for Heurist Imaginaries NFT holders.

5. New Model Deployments

We’ve expanded our model offerings with three exciting additions:

1. PepeXL: Perfect for meme generation. Please use it responsibly. View on Civitai; Create with Heurist Imagine.
2. ChilloutMix: A highly specialized Image generation model derived from Stable Diffusion 1.5 with super fast inference, capable of generating photorealistic images, dreamlike art, and more. Create with Heurist Imagine.
3. Flux: As mentioned earlier, this cutting-edge model is now fully integrated.

We are committed to bringing diverse and powerful AI models for our community of creators and developers.

What’s next? We will get a leap forward in Heurist’s brand asset creation with a new model that is being trained right now.

Sneak peaks: https://x.com/LDWorksDavid/status/1840926136466870698

Stay tuned for more updates and exciting developments in the coming months! As we step into Q4 2024, we have some big announcements on the horizon. Our team is working tirelessly on groundbreaking features, partnerships, and ecosystem expansions that will further solidify Heurist’s position at the forefront of DePIN and decentralized AI infrastructure.