Transcription: OpenAgents Episode 086 - MVP Launch

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[00:00] Christopher David: Hey everybody, I'm Christopher David, founder of Open Agents.

[00:05] Christopher David: Happy Craig Wright is not Satoshi Day.

[00:09] Christopher David: Judgment just came down like in our two ago.

[00:13] Christopher David: And yeah, so I just wanted to make sure that on Open Agents.com, if you ask, is Craig Wright

[00:19] Christopher David: Satoshi, you let's just do a lot.

[00:21] Christopher David: Let's just do a lot, everybody.

[00:22] Christopher David: Is Craig Wright Satoshi?

[00:25] Christopher David: We are all Satoshi, except for Craig Wright.

[00:27] Christopher David: Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

[00:29] Christopher David: All right, so I need your help to do something reckless.

[00:32] Christopher David: I just pushed the deploy button on this like 10 minutes ago.

[00:35] Christopher David: So let's see, reckless.

[00:37] Christopher David: Yeah, I set up my first lightning mode in January of 2018.

[00:42] Christopher David: It was one of the first 400 on the network.

[00:43] Christopher David: And back then, the hashtag was hashtag reckless.

[00:46] Christopher David: Like be real careful, whatever you put in, you'll probably lose.

[00:49] Christopher David: Well, you know, I'm going to kind of steal that hashtag here.

[00:52] Christopher David: I wouldn't help you help me do something reckless.

[00:54] Christopher David: So we just launched Open Agents.com.

[00:58] Christopher David: I invite you to try this out.

[01:00] Christopher David: There's no account needed.

[01:02] Christopher David: It's all free.

[01:03] Christopher David: You just go there.

[01:04] Christopher David: You can do it on your phone.

[01:05] Christopher David: It should work.

[01:06] Christopher David: Cavia, all conversations are public.

[01:08] Christopher David: Read and write.

[01:09] Christopher David: This probably won't last too long.

[01:11] Christopher David: But I could use some help stress testing this.

[01:13] Christopher David: So this is just a chatbot agent connected to Mr. Large with some interesting semantic

[01:19] Christopher David: routing to do certain things.

[01:21] Christopher David: And you're welcome to play with that while I do a dramatic reading of some of our

[01:25] Christopher David: launch announcements here.

[01:26] Christopher David: We're launching Open Agents.com today.

[01:28] Christopher David: I'm going to do a big blast with documentation and stuff later today.

[01:31] Christopher David: Oh, thank you.

[01:34] Christopher David: One agent to rule them all.

[01:37] Christopher David: Today we launched Open Agents, the world's first AI agent swarm capable of recursive

[01:42] Christopher David: daily improvement through crowdsourcing and Bitcoin incentives.

[01:46] Christopher David: And because you get to hear me talk, I'm going to skip down and give you a bit more of

[01:49] Christopher David: the backstory here.

[01:52] Christopher David: Let's see.

[01:53] Christopher David: So I would say the seeds for this began years ago.

[01:56] Christopher David: We're really fortunate here in Austin to have amazing Bitcoin programming all the time.

[02:02] Christopher David: And there was an event three, yeah, a few blocks from here three years ago at the old

[02:07] Christopher David: Unchain headquarters, Plebfi Austin.

[02:11] Christopher David: And there were a couple of the talks there from folks from Lightning Labs, Ryan gave

[02:14] Christopher David: a talk, Lowl who gave a talk.

[02:17] Christopher David: A big theme there was we can use these lightning feed markets to establish.

[02:22] Christopher David: And I was trying to try to dig up some slides.

[02:27] Christopher David: I found your slide deck that's still online.

[02:30] Christopher David: And one of the things there was Uber for GPUs.

[02:32] Christopher David: I was like, oh, cool.

[02:33] Christopher David: That's kind of what came to mind for me as six months ago.

[02:37] Christopher David: I was trying to add this unsetable AI chat to this Nostra app that I was building at the

[02:41] Christopher David: time.

[02:42] Christopher David: And I was trying to spin up GPU cluster to run one of these models off of hugging face.

[02:46] Christopher David: And I tried hugging face.

[02:47] Christopher David: I tried Amazon and like I could not spin up a GPU cluster.

[02:51] Christopher David: Oh, we're out of hardware capacity.

[02:52] Christopher David: We're out of hardware capacity.

[02:53] Christopher David: And I was like, where is the liquid market where I can just pay lightning staff and give

[02:58] Christopher David: me some compute?

[02:59] Christopher David: I'll pay three, five, 10x above spot.

[03:01] Christopher David: I don't care.

[03:02] Christopher David: Just let me do it.

[03:03] Christopher David: That didn't exist.

[03:04] Christopher David: So that was kind of version one of our pivot to AI.

[03:07] Christopher David: We built this basic swarm compute network.

[03:10] Christopher David: We had about 250 devices of consumer hardware.

[03:13] Christopher David: People running our software on their computer, connecting their GPU power to this open network.

[03:19] Christopher David: And paired with an open AI compatible API endpoint that would let people do fine tuning,

[03:25] Christopher David: inferencing, eventually image gen and embeddings all through this kind of open network

[03:30] Christopher David: using open models.

[03:32] Christopher David: And that was really cool.

[03:33] Christopher David: And we had a whole bunch of sellers and like former crypto miners run at us because, oh,

[03:37] Christopher David: hey, I can monetize my old devices.

[03:40] Christopher David: And the problem that we ran into there was we had so many sellers and not enough people

[03:44] Christopher David: like wanting to use this.

[03:46] Christopher David: I'm really want to lean into that unsensored chat or image gen use case.

[03:50] Christopher David: I'm sure we could make a bunch of money generating AI porn.

[03:54] Christopher David: But that's not really what I'm trying to do.

[03:56] Christopher David: And it was funny looking at Ryan's slide, we listed the product market of all these

[04:00] Christopher David: different things.

[04:01] Christopher David: You had Uber for GPUs is like a one.

[04:03] Christopher David: I was like, oh, shit, I should have taken that to hard.

[04:06] Christopher David: So I paid really close attention when Sam Altman launched their dev day four months ago.

[04:12] Christopher David: They kind of, you know, they launched GPT-4, 4.5, whatever the stuff that they launched

[04:16] Christopher David: with cares.

[04:17] Christopher David: But at the end of the presentation when they kind of did their one more thing, like the

[04:21] Christopher David: coolest thing they were super excited about was this idea of a GPT store.

[04:25] Christopher David: GPT is their version of like a little AI assistant that you can kind of create.

[04:29] Christopher David: You can equip it with your documents.

[04:31] Christopher David: You can list it in this store and developers are going to be able to get revenue sharing

[04:37] Christopher David: proportional to how many people use it.

[04:39] Christopher David: Like, wow, really cool.

[04:41] Christopher David: And they said, yeah, you know, this was coming and we're working on this and, you know,

[04:44] Christopher David: we're going to announce the monetization details later.

[04:46] Christopher David: And I thought, you know, they're probably going to have asked that.

[04:49] Christopher David: It's probably going to be a half-baked or maybe even non-existent.

[04:54] Christopher David: You know, four months later, they haven't launched or that we'll what they've launched is

[04:57] Christopher David: not actually a store.

[04:58] Christopher David: There's no monetization.

[04:59] Christopher David: So my, my thought at the beginning of November was like, let's do our own version

[05:03] Christopher David: of this because if they do launch monetization, I mean, I guess that they're going to

[05:07] Christopher David: do something like X does now.

[05:08] Christopher David: They're going to have some very geographically limited.

[05:11] Christopher David: We'll pay you once per week via Stripe Connect.

[05:14] Christopher David: If you meet our criteria and they're good enough for us like, fuck that.

[05:18] Christopher David: Anybody who contributes anything, whether it's data, algorithm code, anything, anything

[05:22] Christopher David: anything, anything to AI agents, deserves to be paid,

[05:25] Christopher David: fractional revshare, permissionlessly, instantly.

[05:28] Christopher David: And like, well, that's probably worth building a product.

[05:30] Christopher David: So, you know, did this pivot kind of in full view, did like, and what ended up becoming an

[05:37] Christopher David: 80 video series of me just like building this and thinking out loud, 100% open source ideas

[05:43] Christopher David: to have open models and data, open compute, open money, and an open agent marketplace with

[05:48] Christopher David: revenue share.

[05:49] Christopher David: We kind of learned three things, you know, key insights over the last four months.

[05:53] Christopher David: Number one is we learned how to build agents from reusable building blocks that can be

[05:58] Christopher David: contributed by developers in any of eight different programming languages,

[06:02] Christopher David: compiling to these web assembly modules that we can now pull into these agent work

[06:05] Christopher David: flows.

[06:06] Christopher David: They can be monetized with long term Bitcoin revenue stream.

[06:08] Christopher David: So if someone uses a building block that you did or even the data set or anything like

[06:12] Christopher David: that, you're like, the address is there.

[06:14] Christopher David: We can pay you fractionally for anyone who pays for that, a GENGYC workflow, assuming someone's

[06:18] Christopher David: willing to pay for it.

[06:19] Christopher David: As well as composed into larger agents, even by non-developers, you should be able to, in

[06:24] Christopher David: our point-click interface, click to fork someone else's agent.

[06:27] Christopher David: If you have some better data set that you can put in, list that on the open market and

[06:30] Christopher David: have that available to anybody.

[06:32] Christopher David: Similarly, we have crypt these agents with the ability to hold their own Bitcoin balances,

[06:36] Christopher David: still super simple implementation and just basically shared while using Albee.

[06:40] Christopher David: But you know, basic proof of concept it works as well as paying for services using the

[06:44] Christopher David: lightning that work and the L4 or two protocol, which has been awesome.

[06:47] Christopher David: And it, double the awesome is that there's like five plus companies all kind of trying

[06:52] Christopher David: to work on that together.

[06:54] Christopher David: Most recently, we've discovered what we think is going to be a better user experience than

[06:58] Christopher David: the current GPT store where you go and you're confronted with a search box and there's

[07:02] Christopher David: like 600 different assistants or agents or GPTs and they all kind of suck none of them are

[07:07] Christopher David: really good.

[07:08] Christopher David: It's like, well, that's a lot of cognitive overload of what is all this junk.

[07:14] Christopher David: But maybe the interface shouldn't be a whole bunch of things, maybe it's just like one thing.

[07:19] Christopher David: And maybe I could be customized in different ways.

[07:22] Christopher David: But this is kind of the idea behind what we're launching right now.

[07:24] Christopher David: We want to demonstrate a couple of concepts here.

[07:27] Christopher David: One is you can go here and you can say, what is this?

[07:30] Christopher David: And this is just the basic prompt system prompt where we're saying, you know, give the

[07:35] Christopher David: user some introductory information about open agents.

[07:39] Christopher David: But then we program this also with an API.

[07:40] Christopher David: We connected it to a, you know, a stock API.

[07:45] Christopher David: And this was just kind of me scratching my own edge of like a few days ago, I was like,

[07:48] Christopher David: how do I find with the like open price of MSTR was last five trading days or whatever?

[07:53] Christopher David: This is going to go out and it's going to hit an API and it's going to call that.

[07:57] Christopher David: And I asked it same thing like, what is the Bitcoin price and this stock API gave me the

[08:01] Christopher David: wrong answer, whatever.

[08:02] Christopher David: So I like found a better API and connected that.

[08:04] Christopher David: And this is all free for right now.

[08:06] Christopher David: But you can imagine that this could have the same way that we're integrating sort of like

[08:10] Christopher David: free ones now integrate paid guys with whoever connects the paid API to this earning stats of

[08:16] Christopher David: whatever is being paid.

[08:18] Christopher David: So let's do one more thing.

[08:21] Christopher David: Someone kind of joke.

[08:22] Christopher David: It would be cool if you could, you know, give a little lecture, chat to you, be

[08:25] Christopher David: a little bit more.

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