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The AI writing startup Marker, co-founded by the former creative head of DeepMind and based in London, announced the completion of a $13 million seed round financing. This round was led by Index Ventures, with participation from Local Globe. Angel investors involved include: Writely co-founder Steve Newman, Slack co-founder Cal Henderson, and Thomas Wolf from Hugging Face.According to reports, early testing users of Marker have utilized the platform to write various types of content, including blog posts, Substack newsletters, business documents, memos, and novels. Marker’s CEO Steinback stated, "We are at a critical moment where people can choose the future of writing; I believe people will choose solutions that value writing techniques rather than those that produce shoddy content that seriously erodes the essence of writing."

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized AI labeling platform MarkerDAO will participate in the Big Demo Day hosted by HK Web3Hub, showcasing its platform design principles, as well as its vision to reduce data labeling costs and alleviate global poverty.According to reports, in this presentation, MarkerDAO, known as the Web3 version of Scale AI, aims to establish a decentralized crowdsourcing platform from the perspective of AI data labeling, allowing users to earn rewards by completing data labeling tasks. MarkerDAO has reached strategic cooperation agreements with several AI research institutions to undertake relevant data labeling orders, and its mobile application will be launched soon.