Concerning partnership with Giga Watt. The partnership with Giga Watt begins in 4Q2017, with testing GPU capacity. After the testing period, the Neuromation platform will be powered with 40k GPU in 1Q2018. The platform will be launched in February 2018, and ready for AI practitioners in March 2018.

Yes, you will be able to mine the coin and get some benefits as a token holder. Let me quote WP in addition:

"We want miners to have options. In addition to their existing mining software they can load up Neuromation Computation Node. When a Neuromation task is available each node can bid to participate. If the Node wins the bid it will switch computing power from mining Ether or other coin to a task on the Neuromation blockchain platform. The Node will generate synthetic data or train a Deep Learning model. As reward the miner will receive our Neurotokens (NTK). Once the task is complete the Neuromation Node will exit and the miner will proceed to mining crypto... Our preliminary estimates indicate that miners will earn up 3 to 5 times more mining Neurotokens (NTK) versus mining crypto currency. Miners will not be engaged in Neuromation tasks 100% of the time so it will be an efficiency boost to the existing set up. You can see the difference in effective yield below for similarly configured rigs, one running crypto currency mining algorithm and one running Deep Learning / Data Rendering tasks."