Why We Are Building Bagel
The Artificial General Infrastructure for Artificial General Intelligence
Throughout history, human progress has faced immense challenges, ranging from poverty to climate change, diseases to economic instabilities, and the relentless pursuit of extended longevity. Each is a complex issue with a history of mostly iterative solutions. What if there was a breakthrough, akin to the discovery of fire or the invention of the gravitational theory – a breakthrough so fundamental that it reshapes our journey as a species, accelerating our quest to resolve all other challenges?
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is that breakthrough. Determining how to achieve AGI with proper alignment is the most important problem to solve in our lifetime.
One of the most formidable obstacles toward achieving AGI, which is aligned with the prosperity of our civilization, is the sheer lack of high-quality, diverse data to feed burgeoning AI models. Despite the valiant efforts by big tech firms to aggregate training data, our datasets remain fragmented across sectors, access models, and private big tech silos. We desperately need unified platforms enabling the seamless flow of data between individuals, companies, and AI agents in a privacy-preserving manner. Only then can we pool together the critical mass of multi-modal data covering the full spectrum of human experience.
To collect, organize, and share intelligence for artificial general intelligence, we must first build the artificial general infrastructure for it.
That's why we're working on Bagel, a perpetually expanding conscious network connecting all intelligence, artificial and human. It's an open ecosystem enabling exponential AI growth through trustless coordination of data and insights. This is achieved using advanced privacy preserving (ZK/FHE/DP) cryptography that ensures data integrity and privacy. Bagel is the fabric linking comprehension between autonomous systems and people, creating a fair platform that respects the content rights of everyone involved and distributes benefits justly.
This bold vision has garnered interest from some visionary backers who recently joined us in our journey. We raised a $3.1M pre-seed funding round, led by CoinFund, with participation from Protocol Labs, Borderless Capital, Maven 11 Capital, Graph Paper Capital, and Breed VC.
We are a team of mostly engineers and researchers working towards solving one of the most challenging and fundamental problems, while having the most fun we’ve ever had. If that sounds like a team you would like to be part of, check out our careers page.
We will continue releasing in-depth technical and non-technical details of our work. To keep up with our journey, subscribe to our blog and follow our social media. Or, if you just want to say hi, send an email to team@bagel.net.
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