Interview, Fireside Chat
99.9% of the internet is about to be AI?
- The company anticipates securing a $250 million seed investment from OpenAI to focus collaboration on biology, chips, AI systems, and potential brain control applications.
- Platforms are expected to become unusable within a timeframe of several months to two years unless they adopt completely new technical solutions.
- Future internet traffic is predicted to be 99.9% AI-driven, with interactions and the overall internet shape becoming exponential once open-source true agentic systems are established.
- WorldID integration with many large platforms is planned for the coming months, with initial use cases prioritized for social networks, dating, gaming, and ticketing systems.
- New product releases are scheduled for Q1, while mini apps are projected to scale to two billion users shortly thereafter.
- The organization aims to integrate encrypted chat that remains secure for over 10 years to prevent information leaks and plans to solve privacy concerns by building systems that share no information with outside services.
- A research lab model will be followed for the next couple of years before transitioning to medical applications within a broader 15-year horizon leading to broad consumer applications.
- The company intends to spend the next five years working intensively across various verticals to identify major integrations and adjust products for specific sectors.
- AR and VR are identified as the next steps after smartphones, with high-bandwidth BCIs expected to follow as the ultimate interface.
- BCI development will pursue multiple approaches, prioritizing ultrasound molecular sensors, with goals to create systems that are fully private, minimally invasive, fully reversible, upgradable, and completely approvable.
- Product designs, such as the Orb, have been adjusted to appear more professional to ensure trustworthiness, and a Soyuz control panel prototype may be functional within a couple of months.
- The organization has a mission to reach hundreds of millions of users, viewing current numbers as preliminary to larger goals.
- While super smart AI agents are expected on social platforms, the speaker anticipates a need for many distinguishable bots.
- The speaker maintains general optimism regarding the ability to solve future challenges such as AI misalignment and considers the current moment the last phase before super intelligence.