During the AMA, it was mentioned about LEO with 100K users. I would presume that is monthly active users (MAU). It is a 10x over the current goal of 10K. It is also a significant move higher from the present 2K or so we currently see.
To many, this will seem like an impossible number. On the surface, it might be. As a social media platform, we know Hive is stagnent. There is lilttle (no) growth with regards to users.
For this reason, the idea of Leo changing things might seem absurd.
There are a couple ways to look at this. In this article I will touch upon both, hoping to provide insight into where things can be.
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100K seems like a big number.
That said, it is nothing, When it come to the online world, that is a meaningless level. A platform with that type of activity is not on anyone's radar.
To contrast, Bluesky is getting a lot of attention, being a promotion of the media. It recently achieved 25 million users. That is a more impressive number.
But guess what....
When it comes to social media, that is still a rounding error. Google and Meta operate in the multi-billions. Even X is over 600 million. There are Chinese applications with billions.
Hopefully this frames things for Leo.
A user base of 100K is a nothing burger. That many could leave the other platforms and nobody would notice.
It will come as no surprise that I think much of the future is tied to AI. If Leo incorproates this into hts platform, we see an evneue that is much different than social media.
The ability to combine the two really enhances the potential of the services provided.
One advantage is Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). This provides the ability to get answers that are not out of date. It also can reference information not in the model, ensuring more reliable generation.
100K monthly users will increase the data significantly. Social media is a powerful feeder system for a vector database.
Here is where things can get interesting. By promoting Leo as an AI platform, we have a different service that is offered. Of course, as more sign on, the amount of data feeds the model, increasing the accuracy.
Again, we are in a field where the numbers are overwhelming.
ChatGPT is over 500 million users. Grok was just opened to the X user base, likely to push the numbers into the hundreds of millions in a few months. Then we have Meta, Anthropic, and a host of other models that people are visiting daily.
All of this, at a minimum, could pull from Google search.
Crypto people like to talk about Web 3.0 but do most of their engagement on Web 2.0 platforms.
It is likely their entry into AI is the same, focusing upon the models put out by Big Tech.
It is time to start catering to this audience by providing services they could use. AI is still in its infancy, thus being able to enter at the onset. Smaller models will find value in the marketplace as time passes.
As we saw, they are not willing to shift their social media activities (for the most part). The reality is most want to talk about Web 3.0 as opposed to using it. This is even true with a fair portion of the Hive userbase.
AI is a different animal. People are concerned about their data and what it is feeding. Some are starting to latch onto the idea of something other than a world dominated by Big Tech. To achieve this, we need to start the process by focusing our eyeballs on models outside what Silicon Valley builds.
Crypto people, at least some, should be open to this idea. It is not the hardest sell in the world.
Again, when looking at an online population of around 5.5 billion, 100K is an insignificant number.
We are going to see a lot of AI models achieve this level. Leo needs to ensure it is one of them.
