Transcription: OpenAgents Episode 092 - Introducing the Agent Store

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[00:00] Christopher David: Don't you love videos full of demos that you can't actually use?

[00:04] Christopher David: This is not one of those.

[00:05] Christopher David: You can try this all right now at OpenAgence.com.

[00:09] Christopher David: And you love my dramatic readings, right?

[00:11] Christopher David: So let's do it for the blog post, introducing the agent store.

[00:15] Christopher David: Today we launched the Open Beta of the Agent Store, the world's first AI agent marketplace

[00:19] Christopher David: with revenue sharing paid daily in Bitcoin.

[00:23] Christopher David: Now anyone in the world can create AI agents and earn a share of their revenue.

[00:28] Christopher David: The Agent Store is live now at OpenAgence.com and we invite you to try it.

[00:32] Christopher David: You can explore agents at the store, build your own agent and read the docs.

[00:37] Christopher David: I like starting with the docs.

[00:39] Christopher David: Let's just see what this is all about.

[00:42] Christopher David: We got some new beautiful docs.

[00:44] Christopher David: Thank you, MetLifei, for the best docs product for sure.

[00:47] Christopher David: All right, AI chat and build agents, the basics up there.

[00:51] Christopher David: And advanced stuff, like the plug-ins, pythonistic K, architecture overview, if you like

[00:55] Christopher David: the nerd stuff.

[00:56] Christopher David: Look at that.

[00:58] Christopher David: These are the basics of AI chat, so we've had a chat product live for a month or so

[01:02] Christopher David: with people happily paying for any of the top 18 models with one subscription price.

[01:07] Christopher David: That's been nice.

[01:08] Christopher David: And you can now do kind of that same thing, but with custom agents created by users.

[01:15] Christopher David: And build agents, let's try to build an agent.

[01:20] Christopher David: Let's see it work in the store.

[01:25] Christopher David: Oh, bobo.

[01:30] Christopher David: Bobo, tell me about bobo.

[01:33] Christopher David: Make stuff up.

[01:35] Christopher David: All right, I'm not going to attach knowledge right now.

[01:38] Christopher David: Or maybe I will.

[01:40] Christopher David: Let's add this sweet agent.

[01:42] Christopher David: Make stuff up, include info from this sweet agent paper, but be funny and bobo and type

[01:50] Christopher David: in lowercase.

[01:51] Christopher David: This is the instructions to the agent.

[01:53] Christopher David: bobo says funny stuff sometimes about sweet agent.

[01:58] Christopher David: Okay, so agent is the publicly accessible description.

[02:01] Christopher David: This is the instructions to the agent.

[02:03] Christopher David: And let's give that a try.

[02:06] Christopher David: The, it might take a few minutes for the PDF to finish processing.

[02:13] Christopher David: Let's just see if we've got basic functionality working.

[02:18] Christopher David: Who are you?

[02:20] Christopher David: I'm bobo, your friendly AI assistant.

[02:22] Christopher David: I'm here to help you with all your questions and concerns.

[02:24] Christopher David: blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

[02:25] Christopher David: Okay, now can we see bobo on the store?

[02:28] Christopher David: Let's check out the store.

[02:30] Christopher David: So this is modeled off of the Open AI GPT store.

[02:34] Christopher David: Very basic kind of list of featured agents at the top.

[02:37] Christopher David: Agent Concierge.

[02:39] Christopher David: Here's the basic rag agent with a PDF about OBGL.

[02:44] Christopher David: And then trending.

[02:45] Christopher David: So these numbers here, the chat icon is how many individual chats it's had.

[02:51] Christopher David: The user icons, how many individual users have chatted with it.

[02:55] Christopher David: And those two things are what determine trending.

[02:58] Christopher David: As well as there's how many Bitcoin SATs, Satoshi's,

[03:01] Christopher David: the smallest denominations Bitcoin, have been earned by that agents.

[03:05] Christopher David: Oh, I want to try rubber duckie.

[03:07] Christopher David: Let's see, duckie listens, understands,

[03:09] Christopher David: and helps you find the answers here.

[03:11] Christopher David: Coding questions and maybe even more.

[03:14] Christopher David: Who are you?

[03:17] Christopher David: That's usually my preferred initial go-to question.

[03:22] Christopher David: This is right now going to this complex backend.

[03:26] Christopher David: You can read about the architecture thing,

[03:27] Christopher David: rag, and stuff like that.

[03:29] Christopher David: Some of it's a little bit slow, but that'll get faster over time.

[03:33] Christopher David: Okay.

[03:35] Christopher David: What do you know any programming languages?

[03:38] Christopher David: Although I probably shouldn't be asking a rubber duckie about programming languages,

[03:48] Christopher David: but maybe there's like a really good, okay, thank you, rubber duckie.

[03:52] Christopher David: Let's go back to the store.

[03:54] Christopher David: I want to find OBO, and then I want to promote OBO,

[03:57] Christopher David: because I want to get paid for OBO.

[03:59] Christopher David: As you can see, these are all just like little demo agents

[04:03] Christopher David: that our developers have made.

[04:06] Christopher David: Where is OBO?

[04:07] Christopher David: Next OS, that looks like someone created a nice agent,

[04:10] Christopher David: although they put too much of the instructions in the description.

[04:14] Christopher David: That's okay.

[04:18] Christopher David: Where the heck is OBO?

[04:20] Christopher David: Let me search for OBO.

[04:23] Christopher David: Oh, there's OBO.

[04:24] Christopher David: OBO says funny stuff sometimes about Swedish.

[04:26] Christopher David: Okay.

[04:31] Christopher David: Do you know about Swedish?

[04:37] Christopher David: That's like some AI paper with some benchmark

[04:40] Christopher David: I've been using that to demo some of the right.

[04:42] Christopher David: Yeah, I know about Swedish, but one is all about them.

[04:44] Christopher David: Swedish and are like super powered software engineers.

[04:47] Christopher David: They're the ones we get to work on the coolest project,

[04:49] Christopher David: both of us, Swedish, and so I can't even tell if this is using the actual PDF.

[04:55] Christopher David: Anyways, doesn't matter because I'm going to get paid for this usage.

[05:00] Christopher David: So let's go learn about the payouts.

[05:03] Christopher David: In build agents, we got a section here for payouts.

[05:06] Christopher David: While the agent store is in beta, payouts will be made once daily

[05:10] Christopher David: with amounts of Bitcoin proportional to usage.

[05:14] Christopher David: Payment rates will vary.

[05:15] Christopher David: Generally top agents should earn at least a few dollars worth of Bitcoin per day.

[05:20] Christopher David: Turn Bitcoin, you must attach a lightning address to your account in settings.

[05:25] Christopher David: You can read about the lightning address at that link,

[05:27] Christopher David: like an email address, but for your Bitcoin note,

[05:29] Christopher David: this is not an email address, do not put your email address

[05:32] Christopher David: in the box for lightning agent.

[05:33] Christopher David: You will not be paid.

[05:34] Christopher David: Yeah, that's what it looks like in the settings,

[05:38] Christopher David: which you can access by clicking up top right, go into settings,

[05:45] Christopher David: and you'll see lightning address right now.

[05:47] Christopher David: If that's there, then you will get paid.

[05:50] Christopher David: If you do not yet have a lightning address,

[05:53] Christopher David: the easiest way to obtain one is by signing up on Stackernus.

[05:57] Christopher David: In a few weeks, Stackernus, by the way, is like a Reddit kind of hacker news

[06:01] Christopher David: situation integrating with Bitcoin lightning,

[06:04] Christopher David: and if you create an account, which is as easy as signing up with Twitter,

[06:07] Christopher David: and the same way that you sign up for an agent,

[06:11] Christopher David: they give you a lightning address,

[06:12] Christopher David: and then you'll get paid and see your balance there.

[06:15] Christopher David: Okay, and a few weeks, we will soon introduce

[06:18] Christopher David: pay as you go pricing for some agents.

[06:20] Christopher David: Users will have agent credit balances that will pay for advanced agents.

[06:23] Christopher David: We are moving in a direction of fully programmatic payouts tied to pay usage,

[06:26] Christopher David: see our flow funds, WikiPage, from more on that.

[06:30] Christopher David: This will come to a point where people are paying for agent usage

[06:33] Christopher David: in the agent credit is split between all the different people

[06:38] Christopher David: contributing to the agent to workflow.

[06:40] Christopher David: There's some examples going to their lightning wallets.

[06:44] Christopher David: It'll take us a number of months to kind of get this vision fully implemented,

[06:49] Christopher David: but we're moving in that direction.

[06:50] Christopher David: Agent billers without lightning addresses,

[06:52] Christopher David: attach to their accounts will instead be paid in agent credits.

[06:56] Christopher David: If you need help with anything related to Bitcoin,

[06:58] Christopher David: or if any questions about payouts, create a post in our stack or news community.

[07:02] Christopher David: This is an area that we have just for our community called OpenEgence in there,

[07:07] Christopher David: and you can also access that from the sidebar.

[07:11] Christopher David: Okay, we have a lot more that we want to do,

[07:14] Christopher David: but I just want to take a quick little victory lap here,

[07:17] Christopher David: because we set out 90 videos ago, six months ago,

[07:22] Christopher David: in response to the OpenAI Dev Day in November of 2023,

[07:27] Christopher David: when OpenAI announced this idea for a GPT store,

[07:30] Christopher David: and they were going to like, let developers get paid theoretically for

[07:34] Christopher David: the little GPT agent, things that they made,

[07:37] Christopher David: from what we can tell zero people have been paid six months later.

[07:40] Christopher David: So our prediction was correct that they're going to have asked the monetization,

[07:45] Christopher David: but that here was where there should be a network that pays people

[07:49] Christopher David: instantly, fractionally,

[07:51] Christopher David: fractionally permissionlessly using this global payments network called Bitcoin,

[07:56] Christopher David: and specifically the lighting network for fast payments,

[07:59] Christopher David: small payments, a big one.

[08:01] Christopher David: We said, hey, let's build 100% open source, open models and data open compute,

[08:05] Christopher David: open money, open agent market place with ReftShare.

[08:07] Christopher David: And we built that over six months, and we now have,

[08:10] Christopher David: at least the miles done called, we have shipped, essentially the same stuff,

[08:14] Christopher David: the open AI ship, their GPT store with,

[08:16] Christopher David: except we actually have payments,

[08:19] Christopher David: and in addition to that, we kind of took some extra time to build a lot of this,

[08:24] Christopher David: kind of solving certain problems at the protocol level,

[08:29] Christopher David: and we're going to have increasing kind of blog posts and explainers going into this kind of thing.

[08:34] Christopher David: But the agents themselves are kind of

[08:39] Christopher David: upgradable via plugins.

[08:41] Christopher David: We've got some plugins, bounties you can read about on our docs.

[08:47] Christopher David: So we're going to be kind of collectively upgrading agents and paying people like you to

[08:53] Christopher David: use or build them. So, thanks so much for following on.

[08:58] Christopher David: If you're new, please go to openagers.com, make an account, and try it out,

[09:02] Christopher David: and let us know how you like it, and how we can make it more useful for you.

[09:07] Christopher David: It's isn't.