Welcome to the December 2024 edition of our Ecosystem Roundup, where we present the latest advancements and milestones across our decentralized AI Platform and the wider SingularityNET ecosystem.
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 submission period for our inaugural beneficial AGI R&D grants concluded on December 8th, 2024, with strong participation from the global AI research and development community.
The initiative, which focuses on advancing decentralized and beneficial AGI, allocated $1.25 million to a grant program designed to accelerate the development of the OpenCog Hyperon framework for AGI and beyond and the PRIMUS cognitive architecture.
A diverse range of research areas critical for achieving true AGI were addressed across the 124 proposals received. A team led by our CEO, Dr. Ben Goertzel, CSO, Dr. Matt Ikle, and Chief Innovation Officer, Khellar Crawford, is evaluating these proposals, focusing on their alignment with the initiative’s objectives and the quality of the submissions.
The program, structured through 14 Requests for Proposals (RFPs), aims to accelerate progress towards human-level AGI using an open and decentralized R&D model where all funded projects are required to adhere to open-source principles, including comprehensive documentation, public code repositories, and detailed technical reports.
We are already preparing the next round of our RFPs, with a planned release in early 2025.
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:
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 December:
To learn more about these recent developments, explore the Archives or watch the recordings of the SingularityNET Ambassador Program’s December 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).
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.
Mindplex is an AI company, a decentralized media platform, a global brain experiment, and a community providing a dynamic space for creators, influencers, and media enthusiasts to connect and collaborate.
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:
Our COO, Janet Adams, took the stage at the Global Blockchain Show in Dubai alongside Robin Reyes, Founder of Heal Through Art, to discuss the combined values of AI and blockchain and how these frontier technologies can work in synergy to address global development priorities and create new possibilities for humanity.
Janet began with an assessment of contemporary AI, specifically highlighting the challenges of big tech domination and addressing the industry’s focus on LLMs. Despite their capabilities, these models demonstrate significant constraints: they are very closed-ended systems tied to their training data, poor at original multi-step logical reasoning, and incapable of radical creativity.
As Janet mapped out a path toward beneficial AGI, Reyes’ artwork emerged in the background, offering an artistic counterpoint to the discussion of technological advancement. Where current systems are pre-trained on large data sets and respond only as programmed or prompted, AGI systems will reason and learn from experience with strategic thinking and decision-making. While current AI remains limited to its original scope and struggles in complex dynamic environments, AGI will adaptively work with nuance and complexity.
The technical core of Janet’s keynote focused on the philosophy behind and the components of the OpenCog Hyperon framework for open-ended, beneficial AGI development. Hyperon serves as the infrastructure for the PRIMUS Hybrid Cognitive Architecture, integrating metagraph meta-representation, deep neural nets, logical reasoning, and evolutionary learning. Through this system, different cognitive processes — from perception hierarchies to language comprehension — work together within the Distributed Atomspace, enabling collaboration between specialized algorithms. This cognitive synergy, Janet explained, extends beyond basic AI capabilities to support applications ranging from robotics and biological reasoning to financial prediction and mathematical logic.
In this line, Janet presented the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance as an alternative path to AGI development, backed by our groundbreaking $53 million investment to create the world’s first supercomputer dedicated to decentralized AGI. The initiative demonstrates our commitment to energy-efficient and sustainable hardware infrastructure, with recent acquisitions including Nvidia L40S GPUs, AMD Instinct and Genoa processors, Tenstorrent Wormhole server racks, and servers with H200 GPUs and Nvidia GB200 systems. The Alliance’s approach emphasizes open-ended cognitive architecture, open source code, diverse heterogeneous AGI algorithms, and ethically sourced and managed data, all supported by decentralized infrastructure and governance. This supercomputer infrastructure is specifically optimized for deep neural networks, large language models including multimodal variations, and hybrid neural-symbolic computing architectures like OpenCog Hyperon, to enable AGI continuous learning, supporting high-load scenarios for large-scale AI operations, and advancing decentralized AGI research.
Another focus was on blockchain technology as a foundational element for AGI development. Janet detailed how blockchain enables decentralized, performant, and defensible compute infrastructure for AI while providing a crucial framework for resource-constrained distributed computing that mirrors biological neural systems. The technology, she explained, ensures protection against attacks and bad actors in decentralized AI systems while facilitating a secure exchange of compute resources and valuable data for advanced AI training. She further elaborated on blockchain’s scalability benefits, describing how it offers a scalable solution for high-volume data processing and AI computations while supporting hardware-agnostic performance scaling by efficiently utilizing increased physical threads.
Beyond the technical aspects, Janet highlighted two significant social impact initiatives bridging technology and human development. The DigiTruck Ethiopia program represents an ambitious educational outreach, aiming to train over 27,000 students, with more than 16,000 being female participants. The initiative provides fundamental programming and robotics training to underprivileged youth aged 8 to 18, utilizing an off-grid mobile digital lab to reach marginalized areas. The program expands digital literacy nationwide through project-based learning approaches while significantly increasing female participation in technology and computer programming.
Parallel to this, Janet highlighted the Healing Through Art program, which combines traditional creative expression with cutting-edge technology education. Led by Robin Reyes, the program offers an inclusive space for all ages and abilities, incorporating diverse art forms from Pop Art to pottery alongside modern elements like Web3, Meta, and AI Learning. The initiative has demonstrated an 81% positive impact on participants’ mental health through artistic expression while empowering students through financial literacy and entrepreneurship education. Reyes’s tailored classes provide a unique blend of creative and practical skills, scientifically proven to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression while preparing participants for future opportunities.
Alex Blagirev, Strategic Initiatives Officer, and Joseph Beverley, Value Engineer, represented SingularityNET at the CoinDCX Unfold24 Conference during the 2024 India Blockchain Week in Bengaluru, India.
At the Conference, Joseph participated in the panel ‘What Web3 Can Fix that Big Tech Can’t’, discussing how decentralized technology solutions, particularly decentralized AI, can deliver new opportunities across industries alongside industry leaders Evgeny Ponomarev, Co-Founder of Fluence Network; Himanshu Tyagi, Co-Founder of Sentient Foundation; and Arpit Sharma, Head of Ecosystem at Aethir.
Our participation at Unfold24 reaffirms our commitment to expanding our presence in India through enhanced builder funding, ecosystem solutions, and engagement with the country’s developer communities. This aligns with our broader mission to enable everyone to contribute to the decentralized development of advanced AI and AGI technologies.
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 community 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 December, 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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