Democratizing AI: The Psyche Network Architecture - NOUS RESEARCH

Intro to Psyche - Psyche

Psyche is a system that enables distributed training of transformer-based AI models over the internet, aiming to foster collaboration between untrusted parties to create state-of-the-art machine learning models. It leverages a peer-to-peer distributed network for communication and data sharing.

Buzz: share spare compute and run open models together over p2p networks.

How Block is using Buzz, MeshLLM, and iroh to turn the computers in a community into shared infrastructure for AI agents.

✨🙌 AI that helps communities thrive on their own terms

Open protocols + AI-enabled coding = building what we need for ourselves

✨🙌 AI that helps communities thrive on their own terms

Open protocols + AI-enabled coding = building what we need for ourselves

Building a Solidarity Ecosystem for AI (SSIR)

How cooperatives, public institutions, and social movements can come together to intentionally build a practical, community-owned alternative to extractive AI systems. <meta property=

Decentralization: Worth The Wait — Open Tech Strategies | Blog

Ethan Zuckerman has a piece in Wired that says building decentralization tools is a sucker's bet. He and his coauthors, Chelsea Barabas and Neha Narula, mention the FreedomBox, which I helped lead, as an example of how difficult this stuff is. They point to a list of things that make decentralized efforts prone to failure and conclude:

Collective action strategies in the age of AI w/ Nick Vincent from Data Leverage - The Blockchain Socialist

I spoke to Nick Vincent, assistant professor of computing science at Simon Fraser University and author of the Data Leverage substack, about what it actually means that AI systems are built on the collective output of humanity’s digital labor and what we can do about it. Nick has spent years researching how data functions as a bargaining tool, […]

A Roadmap to Democratic AI — The Collective Intelligence Project

Our roadmap outlines concrete steps that can be taken in 2024 to build a more democratic AI ecosystem that is adaptive, accountable, processes decentralized information, provides public goods, and safeguards human wellbeing. We describe what the ecosystem could build, research, advocate for, and fun

Against Technofeudal Education

Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI

Open by design: Ai2 brings fully open AI infrastructure online with NSF OMAI | Ai2

Ai2 is bringing NSF OMAI compute online to power a fully open AI research ecosystem, turning national infrastructure investment into reusable models, data, methods, and tools that can accelerate scientific discovery.

Yneuro | The startup behind Neuro ID®

Imagine a world where technology and human experience blend seamlessly. At Yneuro, we’re building that world. As pioneers in neurotechnology, we craft AI-driven software solutions that transcend global barriers. Celebrated in startup ecosystems and competitions, Yneuro is redefining digital interaction, making advanced technologies intuitive and accessible for everyone. Join us as we merge technology and human cognition, creating unprecedented possibilities.

We need network societies, not network states — The Collective Intelligence Project

Balaji Srinivasan's The Network State posits a choice between reaction and stasis. A brighter future does not await through network states, but through network societies.

Hermes Agent — Open-Source AI Agent with Memory, Skills, and Cron

The open-source AI agent from Nous Research with persistent memory, reusable skills, tools, cron jobs, GitHub workflows, and multi-platform messaging.