Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues its unassailable conquest of the internet, adding Bitcoin to the long list of things it can manipulate. Lightning Labs, one of the main companies working on the Bitcoin-based Lightning Network, announced a new set of developer tools that can integrate Bitcoin with AI applications and Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. Built on the L402 protocol, these AI applications will now be able to hold, send, and receive Bitcoin payments–both on-chain and on the Lightning Network. The L402-enabled tools now allows users to sell and pay for API queries, monetizing access to a wide breadth of software applications. The engineers at Lightning Labs wrote earlier this week that the L402 standard would give Bitcoin and the Lightning Network access to the popular Langchain AI software library, broadening its use-cases and building more accessible AI infrastructure.

Source: The Nation July 08, 2023 23:36 UTC