AI infrastructure company PIN AI completed a $10 million pre-seed round with participation from a16z CSX, Hack VC, Blockchain Builders Fund (Stanford Blockchain Accelerator), Illia Polosukhin (founder of NEAR Protocol), Anagram/Lily Liu (chairperson of SOL Foundation), Symbolic Capital (co-founder of Polygon), Evan Cheng (CEO of Mysten Labs/SUI), dcbuilder (Worldcoin Foundation), Foresight Ventures (parent company of Block), Nomad Capital, Tim Shi (co-founder of Cresta), Ben Fisch (CEO of Espresso), Scott Moore (co-founder of Gitcoin), Alumni Ventures and Dispersion Capital. It is reported that PIN AI is developing the world's first open-source personal intelligence network (PIN), an AI operating system that uses smartphone and app data to give users control and privacy protection.