Welcome to the November edition of our Ecosystem Roundup, where we present the latest advancements and milestones across our decentralized AI Platform and the wider SingularityNET ecosystem. Key highlights include deploying the AIRIS experiential learning AI system on Minecraft and our new strategic partnership with the Mina Foundation to advance decentralized AGI with a focus on privacy and security.
Additionally, we provide progress reports from our Ambassadors and ecosystem projects, highlighting the dynamic growth within our ecosystem.
Finally, we highlight notable media coverage, cementing SingularityNET’s position as a leader in the decentralized AI space.
The proposal submission deadline for our Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) research and development grants has been extended to 8 December 2024 at noon UTC.
This extension gives AI researchers and developers interested in our grants more time to prepare or refine their proposals and contribute to advancing beneficial AGI research through our OpenCog Hyperon architecture.
These grants, totaling $1.25M, span the entire technical stack—from low-level hardware designs to high-level state-of-the-art AI algorithms. Collaborate directly with our core research team while contributing to open-source AGI development.
Visit https://deepfunding.ai/all-rfps for complete technical specifications and proposal submission.
On November 6, 2024, we announced the deployment of AIRIS (Autonomous Intelligent Reinforcement Inferred Symbolism) technology within the popular gaming platform, Minecraft. This implementation serves as both a technical milestone for AIRIS and the first demonstration of proto-AGI capabilities leveraging the ASI Alliance technology stack.
The collaboration leverages Fetch.ai’s agent technology which wraps AIRIS for public ease of use; soon-to-be-integrated CUDOS Compute infrastructure to provide scalable processing power; and Ocean Data for robust long-term memory, enabling individualized experiences across users. This innovative Alliance-driven approach pushes AIRIS toward AGI, creating one of the first intelligent systems capable of autonomous, adaptive learning with real-world applicability.
AIRIS is uniquely designed to evolve its understanding through direct interaction with its environment, breaking free from traditional AI constraints that rely on pre-set rules or massive training data sets. Instead, AIRIS adapts by observing, experimenting, and continuously refining its own “rule set.” This system fosters a deeper level of problem-solving and contextual understanding, and its launch within Minecraft is poised to change how AI interfaces with both digital and real-world environments.
The Strategic Initiatives Office (SIO) is a cross-functional team dedicated to advancing SingularityNET’s position in the decentralized AI space. The SIO focuses on the strategic design, proposal, and execution of SingularityNET’s initiatives, focusing on commercialization, revenue modeling, and resource orchestration.
The following table shows the number of currently active partnerships:
We announced a strategic partnership with the Mina Foundation, which supports the Mina Protocol’s zero-knowledge proof (zk-SNARK) blockchain technology. This collaboration aims to advance decentralized AGI while prioritizing data privacy and security. The integration will combine our knowledge layer with Mina’s zk-SNARKs technology to create secure, scalable AI applications.
The partnership’s immediate focus is on exploring the integration of our AI infrastructure with Mina Protocol’s zk-SNARKs technology to enhance data integrity within decentralized AI systems. In the medium term, we plan to explore developing decision-making AI agents for personalized and decentralized governance with our partners. This work will support the Internet of Knowledge initiative on our Platform, where AI agents and identity providers collaborate to form a secure, decentralized knowledge layer.
To support the development of decentralized AI projects, we will explore joint funding initiatives through programs like Deep Funding and Navigators. The ASI Alliance will also collaborate with the Mina Foundation to support their ZKML (Zero-Knowledge Machine Learning) platform.
The SingularityNET Ambassador Program is a community-driven initiative that strengthens the transparency and decentralization of our ecosystem, recognizes the valuable contributions made by our Ambassadors, and rewards their achievements.
Highlights of how our Ambassadors contributed to the SingularityNET ecosystem in November:
To learn more about these recent developments, explore the Archives or watch the recordings of the SingularityNET Ambassador Program’s November Town Hall meetings on YouTube:
If you are interested in getting involved and joining our community-driven guilds and workgroups, please join our Discord server and navigate to the How to Join section for guidance.
Singularity Finance is an EVM-compatible Layer 2 blockchain that brings the AI economy onchain. It offers a compliant RWA tokenization framework to tokenize AI compute and monetize AI agents.
NuNet is building a globally decentralized computing framework, individually rewarded via a tokenomic ecosystem based on NuNet Utility Token (NTX).
Decentralizing the audio for real-time industries. Building the world’s first audio-specific DePIN, enabling super-fast and easily scalable audio connection for communication with AI agents and real-time industries such as music, entertainment, or gaming.
Rejuve.AI is a decentralized, AI-driven longevity research network allowing people worldwide to track their health data, receive valuable insights, contribute to cutting-edge longevity research, and earn RJV rewards.
SingularityNET, as a global leader in the fields of AI, AGI, social robotics, and the intersection of AI and blockchain technology, is regularly sought out to provide thought leadership on a global stage.
In the past month, our team participated in the following key events:
At our internal strategy meetings which took place from November 8-9, 2024, CEO Dr. Ben Goertzel delivered an opening speech, praising the SingularityNET Foundation as an institution and exploring the current AI landscape. Dr. Goertzel noted the dominant position of Big Tech companies in the field, but highlighted SingularityNET’s and the Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) Alliance’s unique approach and position in the race to achieve true AGI by creating a foundation suitable for running AGI systems with general intelligence at the human level and beyond in a secure, efficient, easily usable and fully decentralized way, without any central owners or controllers.
Following Dr. Goertzel’s remarks, our Chief AGI Officer, Dr. Alexey Potapov, discussed our AGI research and development strategy, highlighting the advantages of our cognition-level approach to human-level intelligence compared to LLM-based approaches. A key focus was the scalability of the MeTTa (Meta Type Talk) language for cognitive computations. Dr. Potapov outlined the rationale behind taking parallel approaches to MeTTa interpretation and compilation. He also explored the benefits and advantages of each parallel track, while also covering current optimization priorities and remaining challenges in scaling and driving the adoption of the MeTTa and OpenCog Hyperon frameworks.
This was followed by a comprehensive Technology and Platform Engagement strategy session, which focused on our efforts to drive widespread adoption of decentralized AI. The speakers outlined their strategies for building strong connections across AI developers, blockchain innovators, Web2/Web3 startups, and other technology organizations. Key initiatives highlighted included the decentralized AI Marketplace, engaging hackathons, AGI research grants, and open-source/research programs.
During this session, our CPO, Nick Nayfack, presented the ASI Product Strategy, highlighting the vision and motivation behind the introduction of ASI: Create. This AI launchpad represents the culmination of advanced ASI technologies within the ASI AI DePIN stack, empowering communities to build open-source, decentralized AI/AGI.
Our CTO, Sergey Shalyapin, then covered the Platform Utility and Usability Strategy, presenting the latest developments in SingularityNET’s decentralized AI Platform. Sergey also detailed the Platform’s usability features roadmap and explained how our Knowledge Layer strategy is set to revolutionize the decentralized AI space, with use cases including knowledge retrieval and exploration, task-oriented dialog systems and agents, and data storage-as-a-service.
Finally, our CSO, Dr. Matt Iklé, and Chief Innovation Officer, Khellar Crawford, detailed the AGI Outreach Strategy around RFPs and hackathons. They both discussed our approach to fostering collaboration and innovation to accelerate the development of cutting-edge, accessible, secure, and decentralized AI applications for the benefit of humanity.
The next major session featured a presentation by our Strategic Initiatives Officer, Alex Blagirev, who delivered a detailed presentation outlining our Strategic Initiatives Office’s strategic approach. He praised the valuable work undertaken by his team of value engineers, highlighting the successful partnerships SingularityNET has signed with leading projects and companies across different verticals. These partnerships are aimed at advancing decentralized AI and enterprise-quality AI-driven solutions. Alex also explained how the SIO is leveraging these key collaborations to drive the adoption of the SingularityNET decentralized AI Platform.
Artificial intelligence industry leaders, researchers, developers, and advocates convened at the SingularityNET Ecosystem Festival in Bangkok, Thailand, to discuss the responsible development, ethical training, sustainable hardware enablement, and decentralized governance of advanced AI technologies and future Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) systems at the human level and beyond.
During the event, our CEO, Dr. Ben Goertzel, reaffirmed our commitment to the journey we began in 2017, highlighting how we have continued to innovate, move forward on our AGI R&D roadmap, build the decentralized infrastructure for the global economy, embrace open collaboration, and guide the development of neural-symbolic AGI in a beneficial direction—beneficial for humans and other sentient beings, including the animals and plants on the planet today, as well as the new life forms that will emerge in the AGI era. Following this, Dr. Goertzel and our Chief AGI Officer, Dr. Alexey Potapov, presented a comprehensive AGI Strategy session, outlining our roadmap and timeline for achieving beneficial AGI.
During a series of lightning talks moderated by our COO, Janet Adams, our Ecosystem projects, such as Mindplex, NuNet, Jam Galaxy, Singularity Finance, SophiaVerse, Twin Protocol, Rejuve.AI and Rejuve.Bio, demonstrated their abilities to transform research into vertical and domain-specific solutions. Application areas include decentralized finance, robotics, biotech and longevity, gaming and media, arts and entertainment, and enterprise-level AI.
A highlight of the day was the “AI for Global Good” panel, which brought together experts to discuss the development of beneficial AGI. The session explored practical solutions for ensuring AI benefits all of humanity, focusing on innovations in healthcare and education. This was complemented by a session on “Building the Future of Decentralized AI,” which addressed technical challenges and innovations in the field, highlighting our role in driving the global shift toward decentralized intelligence.
Throughout the day, participants engaged in discussions about our mission to democratize AI development and create a collaborative ecosystem for beneficial AGI. The Festival concluded with a networking session, fostering connections among developers, researchers, and enthusiasts committed to advancing decentralized AI technology.
In a keynote address at the Superintelligence Summit, CEO Dr. Ben Goertzel outlined his vision for the path from AI to AGI and artificial superintelligence (ASI). Dr. Goertzel began by clarifying key terminology, explaining that while AI has existed since the 1950s and refers broadly to software performing tasks we consider intelligent, AGI represents something more profound – systems that can generalize and be creative beyond their training and programming.
Dr. Goertzel emphasized his belief that once human-level AGI is achieved, the progression to ASI could be rapid – potentially just a few years – through recursive self-improvement, referencing mathematician I.J. Good’s 1965 concept of the “intelligence explosion.”
He then discussed the ASI Alliance, formed through the tokenomic merger of SingularityNET, Ocean Protocol, and Fetch.ai, with CUDOS joining as a fourth member. While maintaining operational independence, these projects merged their tokens (currently operating under the ticker FET, pending transition to ASI) to create shared incentives for collaboration.
A significant focus was placed on ASI: Create, their new product architected by our CPO, Nick Nayfack, which provides a no-code to low-code platform for connecting large language models with knowledge graphs. The platform demonstrates the Alliance’s integration, using Ocean for datasets, CUDOS for compute, and combined Fetch.ai/Singularity NET nodes for core functionality.
Dr. Goertzel outlined several paths toward AGI, including their OpenCog Hyperon approach, the potential of large language models, world-world models, and the possibility of emergence through coordinated agent activity. He explained how the ASI Alliance’s heterogeneous network can support multiple approaches working in parallel and potentially accelerating each other’s progress.
The keynote concluded with an outlook into the Alliance’s development roadmap, including plans for ASI hackathons, accelerators, and the concept of ASI supernodes. Dr. Goertzel also invited the attendees to join us at the upcoming BGI 25 (Beneficial General Intelligence 2025) conference and to explore his new book with Dr. Gabriel Axel, “The Consciousness Explosion,” which delves into the path to beneficial AGI and ASI through decentralized AI networks.
Berick Cook, AI Developer at SingularityNET, delivered a keynote at the 6th International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCAA 2024).
During his keynote, Berick presented the Autonomous Intelligent Reinforcement Interpreted Symbolism (AIRIS) experiential learning system, highlighting its key advantages over traditional Reinforcement Learning.
He also examined the current state of research and outlined future research directions, exploring potential use cases that may emerge as AIRIS development continues and integrates into OpenCog Hyperon’s PRIMUS cognitive architecture.
We are fortunate to have some great community leaders who actively contribute to the growth and development of the SingularityNET ecosystem. Here are some of the latest community-created initiatives that showcase the creativity and collaborative spirit thriving within our ecosystem:
Join our vibrant community to dive deeper into the world of SingularityNET and discover how you can participate in shaping a more decentralized and democratized AI future. Connect with us on Discord and explore our Ambassador Program for opportunities to collaborate, learn, and contribute to our shared vision.
Recent media coverage highlights the progress we are making, the partnerships we are forging, and the thought leadership we are providing in the AI space:
We are proud of the work our teams and community accomplished in November, and we remain committed to advancing decentralized beneficial AGI for all by creating space and opportunity for everyone to access, benefit from, and contribute to the development of frontier technologies.
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