Learn about SingularityNETs latest updates on our Roadmap, HR, Partnerships, and Decentralization, new executive team members, plus an update from our COO Janet Adams
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Greetings Singularitarians,
Its been a super successful quarter+ here at SingularityNET, as were sure you all will have noticed, and we have a lot to share with you! We are excited to share the Update from the COO, to answer some of our most frequent community questions, and update all the progress on our quarterly milestones, HR, partnership advances, and progress toward organizational decentralization. Let’s dive in!
· Update from the COO: The Singularity draws closer
? Community Questions
· Milestones Update Q2+
· Notes on the roadmap:
? OpenCog Hyperon
? AI-Domain Specific Language (DSL)
? The Decentralized AI Platform
? AI services released on the platform
? Blockchain Team and Cardano migrations
? Deep Funding
? Rejuve Network (Rejuve.AI)
? Rejuve Biotech
? Cogito Protocol
? Mindplex
? Zarqa
? Jam Galaxy
? TrueAGI
? Twin Protocol
· HR Update
· Partnerships
? Partnerships Dashboard
· Decentralization
? Community DAO and the Supervisory Council Election
? Grassroots Governance Community Forums
? Ambassador Program
It is, once again, a great pleasure to share the Q2+ Operations update with you, our loyal community supporters, who have been with us over the years, as well as the ones who have just arrived. Welcome to SingularityNET to our 6,000+ new followers on our social channels, and thanks for coming on board at this most exciting time!
The pace of change at SingularityNET never fails to inspire and motivate me; the progress is continuous. Now in early September, after a period of significant growth and restructuring at SingularityNET, I am delighted to share with you our Q2+ Operations update and highlight some of the major developments of the months from April to August.
To begin, a very big shout out and massive thanks to all of you who partook in the recent successful token launches of Cogito, HyperCycle, and SophiaVerse, who became the latest SingularityNET incubated spin-offs to successfully launch, joining Rejuve, NuNet, and SingularityDAO as standalone projects in the SingularityNET Ecosystem. A special thanks also goes out to the respective teams as well as various supporting staff across SingularityNET and SingularityDAO for their hard work.
All of the spin-offs are designed and founded with the purpose of creating AI agents for the SingularityNET marketplace as they mature, and supporting the thriving SingularityNET ecosystem, powering us forward towards our goal of beneficial Artificial General Intelligence.
Moving on to SingularityNET Foundation capability as announced in July, we are very excited to have onboarded two new, very dynamic executives onto the SingularityNET executive leadership team with the appointment of Loic Claveau as our new Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and Alex Blagirev as our new Strategic Initiatives Officer (SIO). Loic has made his mark quickly, taking hold of and restructuring the marketing team, while Alex has been driving rapid partnership strategy and partnerships aimed at strengthening SingularityNET’s position in the AI service market and driving increased utility of the AGIX token. We have a few words from each of these fantastic new executives below.
Loic Claveau –
Coming to SingularityNET feels like a blessing, being surrounded by so many great minds, and of course, bathing in the light of Ben has left an incredible feeling. Its not often that your CEO is a true visionary so I am trying to learn as much as I can from him. As for the Marketing Department, as Janet quickly mentioned, my very first step is to build the foundation of the team by doing a gap analysis:
Our ambitions – Where we are = What we need.
We are now filling that gap with the right talents. We are building an amazing content pipeline and strengthening the ways we communicate with you, our community, through different types of activities. As I always say, if content is King, engagement is Queen and you know who the real boss is (the Queen, of course ??!) So expect more content, of course, but also a specific focus on engagement from us in the coming months.
Alex Blagirev –
There is a great opportunity to advance our strategic initiatives and work together alongside the SingularityNET ecosystem. I am looking forward to expanding operations and implementing new frameworks for the ecosystem and community that focus on building AGIX utility and bringing new strong names from across industry. We want to keep the balance between flexibility in movement, avoid bureaucracy, and ensure our new friends have a seamless connection with SingularityNET.
Our work to enhance our executive capabilities extends across the ecosystem, and we are thrilled to announce that we have completed a merger process between our music spin-off, Jam Galaxy, and Museverse. Museverse, a music metaverse & XR initiative backed by Deep Funding in 2022 is led by Patrik Gudev.
As our Jam Galaxy plans mature and progress towards a Token Generation Event, the merger introduces a valuable dataset of sounds, a portfolio of strategic partnerships, and a brilliant executive leadership team with a great passion for revolutionizing the music industry. This merger enhances our music proposition and seamlessly integrates Jam Galaxy (decentralized music platform), Musaic (AI music tools), and Museverse (metaverse & XR) into a coherent structure.
Patrik is now CEO of Jam Galaxy, alongside the highly dynamic and driven COO Matej Zimak, who are driving up a storm of activity. Recent engagement at the WebX conference in Tokyo, located in the world´s second-largest music market, has set the stage for potentially transformative partnerships with key music labels and distributors in Japan. This success was followed by a great showing at the Rare Evo Cardano Community Event, where Patrik shared future project plans on the event Main Stage, and the booth hosted an opportunity to community to Jam together, and share the connection of music.
Finally, wrapping up the restructuring news, I was honoured to welcome Rachel Lyons as our new VP of Operations. Rachel has a broad and demanding role, responsible for all operations and finance processes from planning, resource management, and HR, to payments and financial reporting and everything in between! Rachel has been coming rapidly up to speed, and her focus is on creating resilient, stable, and scalable operations and processes to power SingularityNET through our next phase of evolution in the AI revolution. Rachel has already made her mark with the implementation of a new travel booking system and approval processes, the design of a suite of front-to-back finance processes, and the restructuring of the HR and finance teams, including a new cost effective outsourcing arrangement for payments and record-keeping. Rachel will continue to build resilience across our operational processes over the coming months to be prepared for massive scaling as the current positive AI landscape would suggest with McKinsey recently forecasting that generative AI could add the equivalent of $2.6 trillion to $4.4 trillion annually to the global economy. SingularityNET is uniquely positioned with skills across the most important AI methods to flourish in this accelerating revolution.
– Yaya Labs Announcement of our collaboration with world renowned creative director Ben Ditto to make Desdemona Robot a star in popular music, culture and fashion.
– Partnerships we are very proud to have announced our partnerships with World Mobile, VeChain, HAQQ Network, Earthwise, and Purecipher. There is so much potential from these partnerships in increasing SingularityNETs reach into telecoms, credit, sustainability, ethics, blockchain and cyber security (read more in the partnerships update!).
– 2022 Financial Report has been completed and is undergoing board approval currently; this was a little delayed by the intense focus on token launches and restructuring activities but is now undergoing final approval
– The UNs AI for Good summit in Geneva our robots stole the show at the worlds first robot press conference, and we made many new friends while advocating for decentralisation as the path for ethical AI and AGI for the benefit of humanity.
– SingularityNET Platform Strategy We are undertaking a deep and thorough review of our Platform in relationship to the emerging AI landscape and our optimistic timeline for AGI or AGI-ish breakthroughs; as well as our upcoming initiation of the Cardano Platform Port. We are taking our new executives fresh input into account and formulating a robust strategy direction that brings all our many efforts and initiatives into a laser focus aimed straight at our mission. We will be announcing a renewed platform strategy for SingularityNet with a strong focus on Knowledge Graphs as LLM plug-ins more coming soon on this!
? (See a preview in my Rare Evo Mainstage talk!)
– Deep Funding Round 3 announced with a new pool dedicated to RFPs!
– AGI Progress And most importantly, we continue to power rapidly towards AGI with strong progress on our OpenCog Hyperon and MeTTa functional programming language read on!
The community has been asking fantastic questions over the past quarter, and wed like to take a moment to answer some of the recent community subjects:
Cardano staking has completed its final audit; our team is working intensively on bringing staking live as quickly as possible while also ensuring the security and efficiency of the many innovations created for the Cardano chain. In addition, we are collaborating with the SDAO team on building the front-end portal and ensuring the user experience is as straightforward as possible. We expect this before the end of Q3.
Our focus during H1 has been on supporting the launch of ecosystem spin-offs during this period of rapid growth. We are making great progress.
Behind the scenes, we are working to plan and coordinate the airdrop and claiming process across projects. Our goal is a maximally efficient and seamless experience for the community. Well provide more details shortly on timelines and procedures as they solidify.
Our vision remains to enhance alignment across the ecosystem to deliver shared value. We appreciate your patience as we lay the operational groundwork.
A: Buy the GPUs required to create massively powerful AI and compete with big tech in this interim pre-AGI period where resource-hungry methods dominate.
A: Zarqa will expand the name and reach of the SingularityNET foundation and ecosystem.
A: No, we are in a time of massive expansion and acceleration of AI and the AI market globally. No matter how fast the SingularityNet ecosystem expanded in any direction, we couldnt be extractive from each other we build all our ventures for synergies and to support SingularityNET in reaching its goals.
A. Zarqa is not developing AGI, but advancing the integration of symbolic methods with LLMs; a fundamentally different architecture than our AGI approach.
A: Zarqas models will run on the SingularityNET marketplace with the AGIX token as utility, the potential is staggering. ChatGPT was the fastest growing product in the history of humanity, imagine what an actually smart, neural-symbolic, knowledge grounded LLM could do for token utility.
A: Our advanced neural symbolic AI projects fit together as a synergistic whole, supporting one another and the long-term mission-critical vision of SingularityNET to develop decentralized, democratically governed AGI running on the SingularityNET Platform.
OpenCog Hyperon and SingularityNET are committed to the principles of open-source software development and decentralized deployment, most critically in relation to AGI breakthroughs this technology is too powerful to be in the control of any limited group.
A: The underlying tech and business models of Nunet, HyperCycle, and SingularityNET form a robust decentralized tech stack that will interact in a variety of configurations, depending on the use case.
Bens overview of the vision for our decentralized tech stack:
Overall, what we are doing is creating an overall tech stack for decentralized deployment of AI processes across distributed compute networks and Nunet and HyperCycle are building separate aspects of this tech stack, which will productively operate together in a variety of complementary ways.
NuNet is intended to be pivotal in helping smooth and abstract away the complexities of unknown or mismatched hardware that HyperCycle rings may run on in the future. At the same time, both projects are designed to operate collaboratively or independently for maximum flexibility. The interoperation of the projects, and the variety of ways they and their token structures will augment each other, is continuing to dynamically unfold as the project themselves continue in their development.
A: The ultimate intention is to have Nunet compatible with HyperCycle ring architecture; utilization of Nunet in a given architecture will depend on the HyperCycle rings implementation and use case. HyperPG is a particularly optimized ring structure, which will be flexible and scalable and can be implemented in a variety of contexts. Down the road, these should include contexts where utilizing an underlying Nunet architecture is an attractive option.
As Ben put it succinctly, There is no in-principle reason why HyperPG shouldnt include nodes that combine HyperCycle and Nunet as an option! This also doesnt have to be the first thing HyperPG launches however (and it wont be).
The technical details are still in development, as the entire technology is innovated from the ground up, but the opportunities only continue to broaden.
A: As Ben shared, While HyperCycle has some advantages to Cardano on a fundamental level, its still pre-alpha in many ways (though building on some mature ingredients like the TODA file code). As we move fast toward a beneficial Singularity, HyperCycle will be heavily focused on interoperability from the start; and can focus on building a rich ecosystem of DApps, etc, later.
In addition, interoperability between HyperCycles core unique smart contract language (Opencog Hyperons MeTTa language) and an external chains smart contract language can be done much more richly if this external language is also a functional language. This rules out Solidity but not Plutus (basically Haskell). Interoperability with Plutus (Cardanos smart contract language) will be super-fast due to Hydra, even for complex cases; and it will often be viable to formally prove that combined MeTTa/Plutus code carries out its specified function correctly.
HyperCycle will initially be used to form a decentralized infrastructure for Opencog Hyperon AGI, and of course may be used early on for other critical applications like high-frequency token trading, ecosystem-wide cross-application reputation management, and decentralized LLMs running on edge devices + repurposed crypto mining farms. But these initial HyperCycle agents will gain practical value via interoperating with DApps on other blockchains carrying out a variety of functions; and interoperability with Cardano DApps will be the highest value here. In other words, HyperCycle will be able to impersonate an Eth sidechain too, but in its guise as a Cardano sidechain its going to have higher degrees of efficiency and verifiability, both of which are very important.
Teams currently onboarding to the Platform:
The platform services have continued to increase every quarter this year. In January, the marketplace listed 68 services which has increased to 84 services.
A number of AWS-based network infrastructure solutions have been developed and deployed, which are now awaiting blockchain integration. Solutions include cloud infrastructure solutions for GCOIN testnet demonstration, for the demo version of the JamGalaxy portal, and for the Multi-Chain Wallet Binding Tool. The further work plan includes finalizing the software code for staking, including the smart contract code, as well as the front-end and back-end code. As well as the refinement of the required functions for the MVP of the JamGalaxy project.
We have finished our governance rounds with a number of interesting ideas that were, however, not matured enough for a voting event. With only one proposal completely ready, we decided not to organize a whole voting event around this but instead to start preparing for Deep Funding Round 3 which was launched in the first week of August.
DFR3 comes with a number of smaller changes but also with one important innovation: A pool dedicated to RFPs (Requests For Proposal) issued by SingularityNET. This pool alone has a maximum allocation of $530,000 in AGIX. The complete reward Pool of DFR3 is $1,530,000 in AGIX!
Another exciting topic is the development of our own proposal submission portal, fully integrated into our existing WordPress environment. We are very happy to see the community sharing our enthusiasm when we offered a preview of what to expect. We hope the new portal will give a better user experience and better-formatted proposals, lead to fewer projects that are not eligible, and facilitate improved communication between Deep Funding staff and participants. While the development of the new portal is going well, we decided (in consultation with the community and the Supervisory Council) to do one more round on our current portal while continuing our work on the development and testing of the first version of the new environment. Curious? Take a look at this governance call, where we explained the reason for the new portal and gave a demo of its features.
Last but not least, we are creating a Deep Funding Community Focus Group that will act as a sounding board and mediating body between internal staff and the community. With a smaller group than our usual Governance calls and with a higher communication frequency, we hope to be able to have more in-depth discussions and prepare for many important decisions that are still to come. We are grateful for the many applications we received and are looking forward to kicking off the new process by the end of August/start of September.