Following related strikes from Cloud9 and Dignitas, decentralized compute community Theta Labs has signed a take care of esports staff 100 Thieves that may see it launching its personal AI agent later in 2025.
The strategic partnership will combine the agent with 100 Thieves’ current channels, offering followers with a personalised information throughout group, commerce and social media exercise.
The agent may even be built-in with Shopify, monitoring inventory ranges and merchandise sizes and availability, whereas offering extra related details about the staff and its actions, together with reside match outcomes.
“Fans will be able to jump onto our site, ask the AI agent where to find an exclusive piece of apparel, and at the same time pull up the latest schedule from one of our teams, all in one interaction. By partnering with Theta, we’re building a smarter, more connected experience that brings every part of 100 Thieves to life in real time,” mentioned COO Julie Van.
By way of blockchain exercise, the agent will run on Theta’s over 30,000 distributed nodes, that are run by information centres and group members. In addition to offering AI capability, it could possibly additionally deal with rendering, gaming and basic on-line media duties.
“Once up and running the new Shopify-integrated ecommerce AI agent on Theta’s distributed infrastructure will deliver live commerce data, real-time inventory and to their passionate fanbase,” commented Theta’s CEO Mitch Liu.

