Transcription: OpenAgents Episode 100 - Looking Ahead

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[00:00] Christopher David: 7 months and 100 videos later we have achieved the core objective of this video series

[00:05] Christopher David: we've built an agent store with revenue share paid to builders every minute but we're not

[00:10] Christopher David: done we've got a lot more we want to do so what's going to happen over the next 7 months

[00:15] Christopher David: and the next 100 videos? Well we're going to step through each of these things here but the

[00:21] Christopher David: big thing next is we don't have agents that are like really compelling that you want to

[00:29] Christopher David: pay for so that's like next we kind of have to solve that for this to be you know worth people

[00:35] Christopher David: paying agent builder we are going to be focusing on one particular type of agent coding agents

[00:45] Christopher David: you know there's people doing the like open devan thing yeah yeah we're going to we're going to

[00:49] Christopher David: do open source versions of the AI engineer okay this is a quote from the Leo Pold article

[00:57] Christopher David: people are sharing all of the place white collar workers are paid tens of trillions of

[01:02] Christopher David: dollars in wages annually worldwide a drop in remote worker that automates even a fraction

[01:08] Christopher David: of white collar slash cognitive jobs imagine say a truly automated AI coder would pay for the

[01:16] Christopher David: trillion dollar cluster okay so there will be certain closed source companies that go after

[01:22] Christopher David: this market and those companies will take money from Microsoft and kind of be part of the overall

[01:28] Christopher David: Microsoft evil empire we want to build the open source version of that so we're going to continue

[01:35] Christopher David: doing what we're doing in an open source open ecosystem open money open protocol way so

[01:45] Christopher David: what's next is our plugins you are I think this is going to be the main

[01:50] Christopher David: feature set that's going to take us from agents that are like kind of fun to use but not really

[01:55] Christopher David: useful to agents that are actually useful we've had the plugin bounties we just entered our

[02:01] Christopher David: bounty program but we've had people writing agent plugins using the xism framework

[02:09] Christopher David: about 20 different developers have written plugins over the last few months and our dev team over

[02:16] Christopher David: the last two three weeks has been finishing up a UI to be able to connect these plugins to agents

[02:23] Christopher David: so we'll be showing that all showing that and launching that over the next few videos in this series

[02:30] Christopher David: being able to extend agents with custom functionality and having those plugins also have their own

[02:35] Christopher David: rev share stream so we're monetizing this in two ways it having builders be paid into ways

[02:42] Christopher David: if you create an agent that gets used you get a share of that revenue if you create a plugin

[02:47] Christopher David: as a developer that gets used by maybe a hundred different agents you can get a share of all

[02:52] Christopher David: of that revenue that will be cool and then we'll have an actual marketplace where people will be able to kind of

[03:02] Christopher David: identify what people are wanting that we don't have functionality for then they'll write that just like

[03:06] Christopher David: we'll have an actual an actual marketplace of collectively upgradable agents who we're going to

[03:15] Christopher David: be adding various social features so profiles post referrals we want it to be as easy as possible to

[03:21] Christopher David: share about agents someone like you know right now to share an agent you got to do this like

[03:28] Christopher David: query string and then if you click on it and you're not already logged into one account it like just

[03:33] Christopher David: takes you to the home page so we just need to make that experience of like sharing better and then

[03:38] Christopher David: you know we're going to set up the referral program such that if you if you share some share the link

[03:43] Christopher David: on Twitter or something and someone signs up through your link you should get a percentage of the

[03:48] Christopher David: staff that they would earn something like that we will do that probably mid June maybe about two weeks

[03:54] Christopher David: once the plugins you ask solid and then a developer API I don't know why open AI had this weird

[04:01] Christopher David: what seemed to me like an arbitrary division between the GPTs that you create via the UI and then the

[04:07] Christopher David: assistance API I mean it would be cool if developers could build like powerful custom

[04:13] Christopher David: agentic functionality that could also be listed in a marketplace so opening AI has an arbitrary

[04:18] Christopher David: wall between those two we do not it's all the same system so being able to control agents via

[04:24] Christopher David: API and we're also looking at integrating with you know one or more agent frameworks like

[04:29] Christopher David: crew AI to kind of tap into the more Python super power stuff combined with our eight that

[04:37] Christopher David: we're going to we want you to have the ability to control everything about these agents via API

[04:43] Christopher David: okay later in 2024 we're going to do a mobile app I've been got a quick mobile app in a one-day hackathon

[04:51] Christopher David: at the craft thing a couple days ago and that was super fun and it feels really good and I love

[05:00] Christopher David: the idea that I would be able to control my personal fleet of agents on the go and see like a

[05:07] Christopher David: stream of events so that's a logical no brainer there should be an easy way to control agents on

[05:12] Christopher David: the go nothing close to that exists now and like it should so we will do that once we get some

[05:20] Christopher David: the other system solid we're going to start like hunting for more large and sustainable revenue

[05:29] Christopher David: streams eventually we may do some sort of focusing on on enterprise or or figuring out some sort of

[05:37] Christopher David: strategy to get into more businesses but it's going to begin with like just a complete self-service

[05:43] Christopher David: platform such that you know any individual but any small business and medium size company we want

[05:47] Christopher David: it to be as easy as possible then to like slap down a credit card and just do any agents that they

[05:53] Christopher David: want just with one super easy interface with all the the best agents in one place

[06:02] Christopher David: we're going to have to build our own front to your AI lab we're going to have to build our own front

[06:08] Christopher David: to your AI lab we can't depend on meta as an one example you know what they've released

[06:18] Christopher David: is amazing with llama there's some debate about whether or not they're actually going to be

[06:24] Christopher David: releasing the weights for what the 400B and you know thank you yon for your your heavy amount of

[06:33] Christopher David: posting but it it seems clear that they actually there is a limit to what they're going to want to release

[06:40] Christopher David: and at some point meta could just decide it's it's no longer strategic for them to continue

[06:45] Christopher David: being such great champions of open source that they sort of have been to this point

[06:52] Christopher David: so we're going to have to do this ourselves now we're not going to be in a position to run massive

[06:58] Christopher David: clusters but we are in a position to do some grass roots bottom up creative things kind of

[07:07] Christopher David: like news research has done they've been doing an awesome job of just doing interesting things

[07:10] Christopher David: with models I would like to see a more kind of applied AI version of that focus with the focus on

[07:19] Christopher David: what can be commercialized and what can be you know valuable in the context of an agent market

[07:25] Christopher David: place people are really willing to pay for I am a big fan of the Sakana AI lab these people who

[07:34] Christopher David: figured out how to create I don't know something like state of the arts like creating models

[07:40] Christopher David: by like munging together existing models so like you've got all these models on hugging face like

[07:47] Christopher David: being able to combine the models they there's some stuff here that I think is worth more

[07:55] Christopher David: development it's so exciting there's so much to do okay we're called open agents because we think

[08:09] Christopher David: this all should be developed in the open so we're going to keep being uh uh airing on the side of

[08:16] Christopher David: complete transparency and oversharing and making all these videos which will at some point

[08:22] Christopher David: have agents come and summarize and derive actionable insights and make things more understandable and such

[08:29] Christopher David: we're operating kind of on a shoe string budget will that will change at some point

[08:35] Christopher David: but we're always going to be on team open no matter what there's no amount of money that Microsoft's

[08:41] Christopher David: going to give us to make us leave team open so yeah stay tuned for the next 100 videos

[08:53] Christopher David: thank you