Story co-founder Lee Seung-yoon attends Davos Forum, joins global discussions on AI and IP

It was reported on the 21st that Lee Seung-yoon, co-founder of Story (Story, IP), officially attended the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting (Davos Forum) held in Davos, Switzerland, and exchanged views with global political and business leaders as well as technology leaders on artificial intelligence (AI) and intellectual property (IP).

The WEF Annual Meeting is an event held each year where heads of state, chief executive officers (CEOs) of global companies, and leaders from academia and civil society gather in one place to discuss the global economy, technology and geopolitical issues.

This year’s forum is attended by top-level figures from about 65 countries, including US President Donald Trump, alongside business leaders such as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, as well as figures including World Bank President Ajay Banga and IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva.

The Davos Forum’s “Innovator Communities,” to which Lee was officially invited, is a program attended only by leaders of unicorns (hypergrowth innovative companies valued at $1 billion or more). It was reported that a large number of leading AI scholars and big tech executives took part, including Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei, DeepLearning.AI founder Andrew Ng, and OpenAI Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Sarah Friar.

At the event, Story was introduced as a case that can bring the provenance and rights of AI training data, as well as compensation structures, into mainstream policy discussions. In particular, it was said to have drawn attention for designing, on an on-chain basis, how the contributions of content and data can be measured and distributed across the AI value chain.

Story is characterized by its on-chain IP registration and management protocol that clarifies ownership of content and data and is designed so that value generated during AI training is returned to creators.

The industry believes that, as Web3 and AI converge, competition to secure an early lead in IP infrastructure will intensify. An industry official who attended the Davos Forum said, “Even in Davos, amid AI’s rapid rise, there was active discussion about compensation structures for IP and AI training data,” adding, “Protocols like Story could emerge as one pillar of future global standard-setting discussions.”