AI Marketplace
Overview
What is the Sahara AI Marketplace?
The Sahara AI Marketplace is a platform where anyone can discover, use, and (soon) upload AI assets like datasets, models, and agents. It’s designed to make AI development more open, fair, and rewarding for everyone involved.
Whether you’re an AI developer, researcher, hobbyist, or someone just exploring what’s possible with AI, the marketplace gives you access to high-quality tools and resources—with clear rules and real ownership.
What Can You Do on the Marketplace?
Use AI Assets: Browse datasets and models to build your own AI projects. Many are free and open-source during the beta.
Build AI Agents: Use Sahara tools to connect models and datasets into functional agents.
(Coming Soon) Upload and Monetize Your Work: In upcoming updates, you’ll be able to upload your own assets, license them, and earn revenue when others use them.
⚠️ Monetization features are not yet live. Full upload, licensing, and revenue-sharing capabilities will be available after smart contract deployment soon.
What Makes Sahara Different?
Real Ownership: Assets are registered on the blockchain, giving creators full control and credit.
Co-Ownership Support: Multiple contributors can be recognized and rewarded as co-owners of an asset. Revenue is automatically shared based on their role or contribution.
Transparent Licensing: Licensing terms are visible and enforced from the start.
Monetization (Coming Soon): In future updates, contributors will earn revenue when their assets are licensed, used, or reused in new projects.
Automatic Royalty Sharing: When monetization goes live, contributors will earn ongoing royalties from downstream usage of their work.
No Middlemen: All licensing and payments will be handled by smart contracts—no manual tracking, no hidden cuts.
Example: How You Might Use Sahara
You find a free dataset and a licensed model in the marketplace.
You use Sahara’s no-code tools to build a custom AI agent.
You test the agent and deploy it.
(Coming Soon) If you choose to monetize it, Sahara will handle payments and share revenue with any upstream contributors.
How Licensing Works
Every asset in the marketplace includes a license that clearly explains what you can and can’t do with it.
The creator chooses the license type:
Open Use: Free to use, modify, and share.
Non-Commercial Remix: You can remix it, but only for personal or non-commercial use.
Commercial Use: You can use it for business, but not modify or resell it.
Commercial Remix: Full commercial use and remixing allowed, with automatic revenue sharing to original creators.
Asset Categories
The Sahara AI Marketplace supports three main categories of assets: datasets, models, and agents. Datasets include structured or labeled information used to train or inform models-such as CSVs, text corpora, or annotated images. Models are pre-trained or fine-tuned machine learning components available for direct use or integration. Agents (coming soon) are interactive applications built using models and datasets, designed for specific tasks like summarization, customer support, or classification. Each asset type can be licensed, and monetized (coming soon) directly within the platform.
Datasets
Structured collections of data—like text, images, or labeled examples—used to train, evaluate, or fine-tune AI models. Contributors can upload original datasets, define licensing terms, and (once monetization is live) earn royalties from downstream usage.
Models
Pre-trained or fine-tuned AI models, including large language models (LLMs), available for inference or integration into workflows and agents. Creators can register models, define licensing terms, and (once monetization is live) earn revenue when their models are used, remixed, or deployed in commercial applications.
My Assets
A personalized dashboard where users can view and manage their AI assets. This includes datasets or models they’ve uploaded, assets they’ve licensed or downloaded, and (in the future) deployed agents. Users can track submission status, update metadata, monitor usage (once live), and access assets they’ve contributed to or co-own.
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