Update from the COO: The Singularity draws closer…

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. It’s 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.

Other highlights from an action-packed quarter for me were:

– 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 SingularityNET’s 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 UN’s AI for Good summit in Geneva — our robots stole the show at the world’s 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 executive’s 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!

Community Questions

The community has been asking fantastic questions over the past quarter, and we’d like to take a moment to answer some of the recent community subjects:

Q: What is the status of Staking on Cardano?

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.

Q: What is the status of the airdrops for launched Phase 2 projects?

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. We’ll 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.

Qs: What will Zarqa do for SNET?

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.

Q: How will Zarqa and SNET interact?

A: Zarqa will expand the name and reach of the SingularityNET foundation and ecosystem.

Q. Will Zarqa detract from SNETs success?

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 couldn’t be extractive from each other — we build all our ventures for synergies and to support SingularityNET in reaching its goals.

Q. How will the platform be successful if Zarqa is developing AGI?

A. Zarqa is not developing AGI, but advancing the integration of symbolic methods with LLMs; a fundamentally different architecture than our AGI approach.

Q: Where is the value of AGIX tokens gonna come from if Zarqa is the one holding all the cards?

A: Zarqa’s 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.

Q: What part of the ecosystem controls the developments and products, especially AGI if it is developed from the ecosystem

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.

Q: Interaction between AGIX/NTX/HypC and other ecosystem tokens

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.

Ben’s 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 has a tokenized economy for compute resources, customized for AI processes that need compute resources, and a framework allowing AI processes to be automatically deployed on a variety of different compute infrastructures.
• HyperCycle has a ledgerless blockchain infrastructure, powered by TODA plus SingularityNET reputation systems, that efficiently handles micro-transactions between AI processes forming parts of a combined distributed decentralized AI system… it can run as a Layer 0 ( a basic comms protocol), a Layer 1 (autonomous blockchain) or a Layer 2 (a side chain of e.g. Cardano interacting closely w. smart contracts running on Cardano but doing critical AI operations more efficiently on the sidechain).
• SingularityNET is a protocol for AI agents to communicate about their inputs, outputs, data, and requirements… mostly agnostic to what platform these agents run on.”

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.

Q: Will HyperPG also connect customers to Nunet?

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 ring’s 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 shouldn’t include nodes that combine HyperCycle and Nunet as an option! This also doesn’t have to be the first thing HyperPG launches however (and it won’t 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.

Q: How will HyperCycle and Cardano interact?

A: As Ben shared, “While HyperCycle has some advantages to Cardano on a fundamental level, it’s 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 HyperCycle’s core unique smart contract language (Opencog Hyperon’s MeTTa language) and an external chain’s 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 (Cardano’s 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 it’s going to have higher degrees of efficiency and verifiability, both of which are very important.”

Milestones Update — Q2+

Notes on the roadmap:

OpenCog Hyperon

• We are making good progress towards releasing MeTTa to the open-source developer community in the next few months.
• A Space API and its Python wrapper have been fully implemented and improved, and an example of a “neural space” with its own pattern matching via GPT-3.5 calls has been provided. This example shows flexibility in using custom spaces (in addition to the Distributed Atomspace) as well as possible directions toward neural-symbolic integration and mixing MeTTa with DNNs.
• The Hyperon Python module has had an overhaul in the way it is installed, and its C API has been improved.
• In addition, new features and general improvements have been introduced to our Minecraft mod, Vereya, and its Python wrapper, which allowed us to compare our AI agents to the Voyager agent, which uses GPT4 for learning skills, for planning, for reasoning. The results are presented in the blog post.

AI-Domain Specific Language (DSL)

• We have seen more and more LLMs enter the market over the last quarter, providing new, powerful tools that we can apply to AI-DSL. Therefore, we are integrating these into the AI-DSL.
• MeTTa has now replaced Idris, which was our long-term goal, and this was completed in Q2. This will still enable AI-DSL to easily call, compose, verify, specify, and possibly synthesize AI services to create new AI service compositions that can be published on the marketplace.

The Decentralized AI Platform

• We have performed significant testing and improvement of the functionality of free calls on the platform and introduced advanced features.
• The functionality of the SDK has been expanded, as well as continuous implementation of AI model training functionality on the platform.
• Our support team has been working with various service providers, using their experience to enhance the adaptation process for organizations and services. We’re seeing increasing ease in adding new services to the platform.
• The number of projects onboarding to the SingularityNET Platform/Marketplace has risen steeply, including Deep Fund, Ecosystem Spin-off, and other projects. One more Deep Funding team “AcademGene” is currently finalizing its onboarding, and about ten teams are currently at various stages of the onboarding process. In the course of supporting new onboarders, we collect statistics on difficulties arising in the process of onboarding and continuously improve our manuals.

Teams currently onboarding to the Platform:

• AI-DSL
• Mindplex
• Zero2AI
• Museverse
• AcademGene
• Temporai
• Mesh AI
• Carbix / Avatar 2 Human Learning
• INCUBIQ
• VIRTUAL FARM

AI services released on 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.

• During Q2 and through the end of August, the platform services team developed and partially implemented a new system for scaling services in a cloud environment.
• In addition, a number of services have been updated and modified to bring better stability, including:
  ? Textual Emotion Recognition
  ? (Neural) Abstractive Summarization
  ? Hate Speech Detection
  ? Abstractive Question Answering
  ? Punctuation and Capitalisation Restoration
  ? Significant work has also been done to update the Image Generation service and introduce a new basic Speech Synthesis architecture for various languages.
• The development of the ML-Backend part for training AI services for image generation and speech synthesis using customer data was continued.

Blockchain Team and Cardano migrations

• The Cardano Staking project has been the focus and challenge of the blockchain development team, tackling novel and unique challenges to ensure a smooth, safe, and robust system for our community. The program code and architecture were extensively tested, and additional areas of optimization and security were identified and addressed.
• The portal has passed it’s audit and is entering final beta testing prior to release.
• In addition to the work on the blockchain code, the staking team has also developed part of the front-end functionality for the SDAO portal, which includes the ability to connect a plethora of Cardano wallets.
• The blockchain team has been providing support for existing blockchain services across the ecosystem, as well as preparing current spin-offs for future launches.
• A demo version of GCOIN was developed as part of the Cogito project on the Cardano blockchain network; this demo was launched and presented to the community to show how tracercoins will work when launched.
• In addition, after the Cogito TGE, the utility token CGV was integrated into the SingularityNET token bridge.

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.

Deep Funding

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!

• Read more about the new pool and the 4 defined RFPs in this article.
• For more information on Deep Funding Round 3: Read this article

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.

Rejuve Network (Rejuve.AI)

• Rejuve.AI has had an exciting quarter, starting with the continued development of the Longevity App, including UX/UI enhancements, bug fixes, the addition of new question sets, and continued work to complete the Bayes Expert upgrade. The Beta Testers have increased to 2000, with it now being permanently open until launch.
• The Rejuve Team expanded by 7 members: Marketing Director, Full Stack Developer, 2 Data Scientists, Medical Content Writer, Graphic Designer, and Financial Controller, with hiring still under