Yupp, officially known as Ber Sarai Labs Inc., launched with $33 million seed funding led by a16z crypto, the cryptocurrency-focused arm of Andreessen Horowitz, to build an AI model evaluation platform with crypto incentives. The core idea behind the platform is simple: Instead of having a single AI respond to a prompt, users will get two responses — or more. This can be good if they want to see more than one opinion or avoid bad answers. It can also allow users to build a consensus with multiple AI models. The company says that it has more than 500 models under the hood. This includes access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic PBC’s Claude, Google LLC’s Gemini and DeepSeek. It also features a wide range of open-source models, including Meta Platform Inc.’s Llama, as well as various text and image models from lesser-known research labs and small companies. As users browse answers from different AI models, feedback will allow users to share which one they liked and why. This feedback will help tailor future responses on Yupp to their needs. To provide an incentive for users to stay on the platform, the company will offer users a type of token called Yupp credits. These credits go toward using the AI models. Users are rewarded these credits for providing feedback: The higher the quality of the feedback, the more credits. The token can be exchanged for other cryptocurrency payouts. Yupp’s technology crowdsources assessment and uses the rewards to bring in users, but it also uses blockchain technology to provide transparency and an underlying immutable record of the evaluations that cannot be tampered with.