SingularityNET and members of the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance have released two new technologies designed to shift artificial intelligence development towards decentralised and open-source models.
Decentralised platform
The newly launched ASI:Chain is a decentralised blockDAG network in its development stage. It is designed to support billions of autonomous agents and intelligent applications, offering an open and transparent ecosystem for independent AI systems to interact safely. ASI:Chain allows developers to create accounts, transfer assets in a test environment, and test applications while maintaining detailed, transparent audit trails and access controls.
The intention is to create infrastructure where no single company retains ultimate authority, contrasting with the established model where the most advanced AI models are developed and managed exclusively by large technology companies.
Open research framework
The Hyperon AGI Framework, also released in its Alpha version, serves as a research and development platform for advanced reasoning systems. This framework is designed for experimentation, aiming to move beyond the scope of basic software tools or chatbots. It enables collaboration on systems capable of supporting artificial general intelligence (AGI) and potentially artificial superintelligence (ASI) by incorporating diverse approaches such as logic systems, evolutionary learning, and deep neural networks.
“The Hyperon AGI Framework is a place for developers and researchers to experiment and collaborate in building the next generation of intelligent systems, and specifically to build towards AGI and ASI, using a variety of approaches: deep neural nets but also logic systems, evolutionary learning and whatever else their imagination cooks up,” said Dr Ben Goertzel, CEO, SingularityNET and the ASI Alliance.
The release includes improved versions of the Atomspace knowledge graph and the MeTTa AGI programming language. The latter is also intended as the core smart contract language for ASI:Chain.
Collaborative goals
SingularityNET and its partners, including Fetch.ai and CUDOS, are aiming to provide an open alternative for AI development. Their stated goal is to allow anyone to develop, connect, and improve intelligent systems, thus broadening the participation in advanced AI beyond a small set of dominant industry players.
Hyperon provides a shared space for advanced reasoning, while ASI:Chain is designed to function as a backbone for linking numerous AI agents in a fair and secure manner. The platform’s capability-based controls specify who made each change, when, and why, aiming to enhance transparency and security.
Next steps
The development roadmap involves wider community testing of ASI:Chain in preparation for opening access to the public. The Hyperon AGI Framework will see rapid development iterations driven by user feedback, while additional modules are planned to enhance performance for more complex workloads.
Developers and researchers have access to the Hyperon Alpha and the ASI:Chain development network, and there is a focus on welcoming feedback and contributions from the community. A Python interface is available for quick prototyping and compiling to Hyperon’s core language.
Dr Ben Goertzel summarised the direction: “It’s oriented towards open-ended intelligence and autonomous agents, not just simple chatbots or software tools. There is still work to be done on the framework, but we have reached some major technical milestones – we now have extremely fast and scalable versions of Hyperon’s Atomspace knowledge graph and the MeTTa AGI programming language, which will also serve as a core smart contract language for the ASI:Chain. Together, the Hyperon and ASI:Chain releases represent a major step towards our longstanding vision of decentralised, unified infrastructure for advanced AI.”
