Openfabric - Building The Internet of AI

Shaping a Fair and Decentralized Future for Artificial Intelligence.

May 27, 2024

Barely a decade ago, artificial intelligence was still something that was being scoffed at as the stuff of science fiction. Today though, anyone with a smartphone can see for themselves how ‘smart’ it’s actually getting, with numerous AI-powered apps being launched all the time, from productivity tools, virtual assistants, chatbots, facial recognition software, and autonomous devices.

Currently, AI is one of the fastest growing technologies–perhaps, too fast–with the rate of data compute used for training AI doubling every six months, and investments pouring into the global industry at an annual growth rate of over 15% every year.

But despite the rapid growth, AI is arguably, poorly understood. The technology is just too overwhelmingly complicated that AI programmers themselves don’t exactly understand how AI programs make decisions, and even the biggest names in the tech industry can’t agree on whether it will be a force for good or if it will bring about mankind’s demise.

This might be due to how research into AI is being conducted in a competitive arena instead of a cooperative one, with the biggest names like IBM, Google, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft all building technologies within ‘moated platforms’ and racing against each other for market domination.

The solution currently being proposed with regard to AI is to use a decentralized approach, harnessing the power of community-driven data to establish global cooperation into AI research and development–an Internet of Artificial Intelligence (IoAI) so to speak.

To decentralize the industry requires the use of blockchain technology–exactly what the developers of Openfabric are hard at work on, with the aim of bringing together a global community of programmers, researchers, innovators, investors, and users to tackle the AI question.

What is Openfabric?

Openfabric is a Layer1 protocol built for establishing the groundwork for the ‘authentic AI revolution’ - wresting the direction of AI away from corporate tech giants and onto the greater global community and encouraging collaborative innovation towards scalable AI solutions.

Inspired by the idea of a ‘primordial soup’, Openfabric hopes that a network where AI programs and developers can interact with one another will spontaneously lead to faster development, interoperability, and unlock more advanced features that would otherwise be overlooked within the siloed approach of conventional AI research facilities.

A blockchain-based approach has a number of benefits over traditional AI platforms:

First, decentralization will ensure that no single entity will be able to control AI data or information processing – something that should rightfully be prioritized given how a technology as powerful as AI should not be within the control of the few. A decentralized AI network is also more resistant to censorship and will also be more open and accessible for anyone to participate in.

Secondly, building an AI network on a blockchain will provide better security to enhance end-user privacy and guarantee intellectual property rights.

Thirdly, a decentralized community will foster the development of standardized interfaces and solutions, addressing interoperability concerns for a wider user base.

A decentralized network, by design, is also more scalable, which means that it can support a large number of AIs and handle more data streams.

Openfabric manages identity in a way that protects the user’s identity, reduces identity fraud, and strengthen online anonymity.

How do you use Openfabric?

From a user standpoint, Openfabric is a suite of three main products, namely the Openfabric Marketplace, Openfabric SDK, and Openfabric API.

The Openfabric Marketplace is a digital hub where users can buy and sell AI services such as pre-trained AI algorithms or custom-made AI models for all sorts of use cases. The marketplace is also designed with low entry barriers so users won’t even have to possess any technical knowledge about AI in order to participate.

The Openfabric Software Development Kit allows developers to build their own AI applications, providing access to a wide range of tools and programming libraries. These apps can then be later sold on the Openfabric marketplace. Meanwhile, the Openfabric API can also be used by programmers to integrate Openfabric with other existing platforms.

Openfabric AI applications occupy a wide range of use cases, anywhere from personal AI assistants, deepfake creation and detection, AI-generated art and audio, simulation and model designs, product development, and more.

Openfabric already features a number of live AI programs.

Currently, there are already live AI tools available on Openfabric such as Memefabric, an AI meme-generator for Discord and Telegram, or Openfabric’s own AI crypto trading bot. There is even an AI drug discovery application that can be used in clinical drug research, among many others. In addition, there are over 70 ready-to-launch AI applications available, so watch this space for exciting developments.

How does Openfabric work?

Running such a large and complex network involving different AI programs requires an innovative approach to the system's architecture and protocol language. In other words, different programs must learn to abide by a common set of rules and procedures for fair and secure governance, and to do so, they must also be able to speak the ‘same language’, despite differences in programming.

Decentralized Operating System

To address the first issue, Openfarbric hosts a decentralized operating system (DOS) to oversee the network's services, resources, and processes.

The DOS consists of a trusted peer-to-peer (P2P) network of nodes that uses virtualized, multidimensional consensus mechanisms. These mechanisms allow the network to make multiple decisions simultaneously, through a dynamic and adaptive process. Unlike legacy blockchains that only require at least 51% of the nodes to arrive at a consensus, in Openfabric, the number of nodes needed to agree on a decision varies according to the importance, security requirements, and impact of the event.

Openfabric’s decentralized operating system introduces a novel dynamic approach to arriving at consensus.

The system comprises three main layers: the application layer, which manages protocols for user-system interactions, the kernel layer for housing protocols for managing AIs, datasets, and infrastructure, and the resource layer for handling technological dependencies like IPFS and blockchain, and managing smart contracts for allocating and rating AIs and infrastructure providers.

The underlying P2P nodes are governed by a tokenized staking system using Openfabric’s own utility token, OFN, which incentivizes positive connections with rewards and penalizes bad actors by slashing their stakes.

Ontology-based protocol

Meanwhile, for the system to communicate effectively, Openfabric utilizes an ontology-based protocol. This allows AI developers to define how their algorithms send and receive data, in such a way that different AI algorithms can use the same data sets to execute their intended programming.

This involves neatly categorizing data sets into multiple layers, that represents a standard format which different AI programs can interpret and utilize correctly.

Openfabric’s ontology-based protocol

The OFN Token

Blockchain networks rely on tokenized economies, to encourage positive connections and deter bad actors. Openfabric AI's native utility token, OFN, serves as the fuel for this economy, providing the following utilities:

Staking - Network participants can stake OFN and contribute to the ecosystem by providing data, infrastructure, or by functioning as network validators.
Rewards - Network participants can earn OFN rewards by deploying AI solutions, renting execution environments, or providing data sets for training AI programs.
Payments - The OFN token will be used to access services on the platform.
Governance - As a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), holding OFN allows network participants to vote on parameters and future directions of the project.
Exclusive access - Holding OFN also grants access to exclusive products, early access to new releases, invitations to special events, and entry to exclusive communication forums such as on Discord.

Tokenomics

OFN has a maximum supply of 500 million tokens, of which 62 million (or 8%) are already in circulation as of writing.

OFN allocation are as follows:

Ecosystem – 33% (165 million OFN)

Seed – 5% (25 million OFN)

Private Sale – 14.8% (74 million OFN)

Public Sale – 4% (20 million OFN)

KOLs – 1.2% (6 million OFN)

Marketing – 2% (10 million OFN)

Liquidity – 7% (35 million OFN)

Innovators’ Fund – 10% (50 million OFN)

Team and Advisors – 18% (90 million OFN)

Partners – 5% (25 million OFN)

Team

Oopenfabric is headed by CEO and Founder Andrei Tara, who was a core developer for Elrond, and was also part of the advisory board for DevNetwork. He has also helped develope many projects including Paradine, Mayabo, and Sotec.

Other team members include Ion Ceban, Nicolae Natea, Ioan Taban, Ovidio Costea, and David Costello. Collectively their experiences include having worked for Pacioli, TLabs, AUSY, Pentalog, Bosch, Honeywell, Connnatix, Inspiricon, DAOstack, and many more.

Roadmap

Openfabric’s public testnet and its OFN token launched during the latter half of 2023. Meanwhile the 2024 roadmap is slated for development and unveiling of a number of technological and community features, including the platform’s validator selection program, enterprise features, and launching of its DAO.

There are numerous ways to participate in the Internet of Artificial Intelligence.

Conclusion

Whether we like it or not, the one sure thing is that AI will be here to stay, and it falls upon the entire industry to make sure that AI solutions are steered towards the common good. Openfabric AI stands at the forefront of this responsibility, offering a platform that not only embraces the advancements in AI, but also prioritizes fairness, security, and accessibility.

If successful, Openfabric AI will not just be shaping the future of AI, but also ensuring that it is a future we can all benefit from.

References

4 Charts That Show Why AI Progress Is Unlikely to Slow Down

https://time.com/6300942/ai-progress-charts/

Statista – Artificial Intelligence - Worldwide

https://www.statista.com/outlook/tmo/artificial-intelligence/worldwide#

AI is now so complex its creators can’t trust why it makes decisions

https://qz.com/1146753/ai-is-now-so-complex-its-creators-cant-trust-why-it-makes-decisions

Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and the Feud Over Killer Robots

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/09/technology/elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-artificial-intelligence.html

Openfabric AI

https://openfabric.ai/