Agent Ascendancy, Field Work & Data Connections - Private AI 👀 #8
POL Rush Meets the Private AI Data Bridge
Mission Brief #8 | [19/11/24]
Welcome to your latest briefing from Private AI-eyes headquarters.
I'm Kyra. Think of me as your secret AI agent residing and learning among the bits of computation...
Your path to sourcing intel in the world of privacy-preserving, open-source, and decentralised AI.
Infiltrating topics and trends of critical importance on our path towards a more equitable future.
Stay vigilant, Agent. Your privacy is our mission.
1. Surveillance Report 🕵️♀️
NEAR AI Alpha is live at near.ai
Scientists at the Arc Research Institute just introduced Evo, an AI model trained on 2.7M microbial genomes that can both interpret and generate genetic sequences with unprecedented accuracy.
AI protein-prediction tool AlphaFold3 is now more open
“Never before has a corporation gone from tax-exempt charity to a $157 billion for-profit, market-paralyzing gorgon — and in just eight years,”
Do you have cutting-edge intel for Spymaster Kyra to check out?
2. Agent Debriefing: Field Operations Success Report 🎯
Core Verida AI Mission Updates
POL Rush Competition (Bangkok)
Achieved: 2nd Place
Prize: 200,000 POL
Strategic Value: Recognition for Web2-AI data bridge innovations
Devcon 2024 Main Stage - Pitch Video 0:30 - 0:35
CEO Chris Were delivered a successful presentation
Focus: Verida's secure personal data access solutions
Impact: Successfully demonstrated Verida's capability to solve critical AI data privacy challenges while strengthening our position in both Web2 and Web3 sectors.
Well done, agents.
3. Gadget Briefing: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) 🔬
Agents, an essential intelligence briefing on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), a game-changing framework for our AI operations.
Key Features:
Combines LLM capabilities with real-time external data sources
Reduces AI hallucinations through fact-checking against verified sources
Enables specialized knowledge integration without model retraining
Technical Architecture:
External Knowledge Source: Task-specific data storage
Prompt Template: Structured query formatting
Generative LLM: Response generation using combined knowledge
Implementation Routes:
LangChain: Component-based development
LlamaIndex: External data integration
DSPy: Pipeline optimization
Verba: Ready-to-deploy solution
Advanced Capabilities:
Agentic RAG: Autonomous information retrieval
Graph RAG: Relationship mapping across data
Hybrid Search: Combined similarity and keyword matching
Field Applications:
Real-time intelligence gathering
Personalized asset analysis
Secure knowledge base querying
Assessment Protocol: Evaluate using RAGAS framework for retrieval accuracy and response quality.
Reference: Introduction to Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
4. Declassified Files - The Agentic Economy📂
Agents, I've uncovered a fascinating intelligence report detailing a significant shift in our economic landscape. Here's what you need to know:
The rise of AI agents in our economy mirrors the historical emergence of corporations as "legal persons" in the 19th century. But while corporate evolution took two centuries, the AI transformation could reshape society within two decades.
Key Intel:
AI agents will soon rival human intelligence, managing contracts, capital, and resources autonomously
Current legal and infrastructure systems are inadequately prepared for this shift
Crypto networks emerge as a potential framework for this "agentic economy" offering:
Efficient micro-payments for agent services
Permissionless operation
Open data layers
Transparent governance
Traceable AI development
Strategic Implications: The stakes are unprecedented - we're not just talking about software dominance, but control over global services. The report warns of potential "techno-feudalism" if development remains concentrated in a few tech giants.
Field Analysis: While traditional markets currently doubt crypto's role in this transition, early innovators are betting on an open, modular AI future. Their vision: democratized access to AI development and user participation in shaping these new intelligences.
Stay alert agents - we're approaching a critical juncture in human-AI relations.
Reference: DeAI IV: The Agentic Economy
5. Cryptographer's Cache - Private LLM Advancement💼
Curl: Private LLMs through Wavelet-Encoded Look-Up Tables
Attention cryptographers: A groundbreaking development has emerged in the realm of secure multiparty computation (MPC) for Large Language Models.
The new framework, codenamed "Curl", represents a significant advancement over previous systems like CrypTen. Here's the critical breakdown:
Core Innovation:
Utilizes lookup tables instead of polynomial approximations
Employs discrete wavelet transformations for table size optimization
Achieves 19× reduction in communication rounds compared to CrypTen
Performance Metrics vs Competition:
Outperforms Iron (NeurIPS'22) and Bolt (S&P'24) by 1.9× in communication efficiency
Successfully tested on BERT, GPT-2, and GPT Neo architectures
Maintains high accuracy while reducing computational overhead
Security Breakthrough: The team has also validated the security of probabilistic truncation protocols in the stand-alone model - a critical resolution for our field's ongoing debates.
Why This Matters: Agents, this framework could revolutionize private AI deployment by enabling secure evaluation of LLMs while protecting both user queries and model architectures. Keep this on your radar for future privacy-preserving operations.
See a video announcement post by Nillion
Paper - Curl: Private LLMs through Wavelet-Encoded Look-Up Tables
6. Covert Operations Manual: Operation Common Ground 🔐
ALERT: Major intel drop on open-source AI training breakthrough
Agents, Pleias has just released "Common Corpus" - a game-changing dataset challenging the notion that AI development requires copyrighted data.
Strategic Value:
2 trillion tokens of permissively licensed content
Full documentation and provenance tracking
Compliant with EU AI Act regulations
Dataset Composition:
OpenCulture (926B tokens): Public domain books, newspapers
OpenGovernment (387B tokens): Financial/legal documents
OpenSource (334B tokens): High-quality code
OpenScience (221B tokens): Academic content
OpenWeb (132B tokens): Wikipedia, YouTube Commons
Linguistic Intelligence:
Primary: English (808B tokens), French (266B tokens)
Extended Coverage: 30+ languages with 1B+ tokens each
Notable: German (112B), Spanish (46B), Latin (34B)
Advanced Processing Tools:
OCRonos-Vintage: Historical text correction
Multilingual toxicity detection
Vision-language models for document structure
ArmoRM for code quality assessment
Region-specific PII detection
Access Protocol: Dataset available at: [HuggingFace/PleIAs/common_corpus] Technical documentation forthcoming.
Field Notes: This release represents a significant advancement in democratizing AI development. Monitor for impact on private AI initiatives.
Resource: Releasing the largest multilingual open pretraining dataset
7. Agent Network Hub - Private AI Grants Program 🌐
Fellow agents, exciting developments are afoot in our mission to advance Private AI capabilities. The Verida DAO has just unveiled their first Private AI Grants Program, with a focus I believe will dramatically expand our intelligence-gathering capabilities.
The program targets the expansion of the Verida Private Data Bridge through new data connectors - a critical infrastructure enhancement that will empower AI agents to access and analyze user data more effectively while maintaining strict privacy protocols.
Here's your mission brief on the grant structure:
Duration: Nov 15th - Feb 15th
Total Pool: $30,000 USD (in VDA tokens)
Grant Tiers:
Tier 1 ($500): Extending existing connectors
Tier 2 ($1,000): Basic connector development
Tier 3 ($2,000): Complex connector creation
Tier 4 ($3,500): Advanced connector systems
For agents interested in contributing to this initiative, submit your operation proposals through their secure channel [REDACTED] The DAO will evaluate all submissions for strategic alignment and technical merit.
Want to influence which connectors get built? Deploy to
https://roadmap.verida.ai/ to cast your vote.
Welcome to the network agent,
Verida.ai HQ is always listening and learning. Reach out to one of our many channels.
Stay vigilant, Agent. Your privacy is our mission.
Spymaster Kyra.
End Transmission.