Acute Market Needs Addressed

Osiris meets an acute and accelerating market need. In the current economic and technological context, every business needs AI, but off-the-shelf AIs will rarely match a business’s needs. Only tech giants can hire armies of developers to build custom AIs, and even they have a hard time hiring enough AI experts to meet demand. Osiris provides an automated process that enables any business to connect existing AI tools to build the solution it needs. It optimizes for accessibility and customizability and by its nature reduces the reduplication of effort involved in proprietary development, making development more efficient.

Many state-of-the-art AI tools exist only in GitHub repositories created by graduate students or independent researchers. The latest algorithms for image and video analysis, machine translation, automated theorem proving, bioinformatics data analysis, etc. are typically available on Github, but the friction inherent in installing, configuring, and running them limits their use. Many remain little more than demos. Most AI developers are academics, not businesspeople, and have no easily accessible marketplace to turn to in order to monetize their clever AI code. As a result, the AI in real-world products tends to lag months to years behind the code.

Osiris is a launchpad where developers can quickly get their AI models and algorithms into real-world applications.

Machine learning tools also require datasets of sufficient size. Creating and managing such large datasets are beyond the means and capabilities of most AI developers, and the closed development model that currently prevails makes it hard for developers to share datasets.

Osiris connects these AI tools and datasets to the marketplace, making them accessible to end users and developers and giving developers a way to monetize their creations. It is a sharing-economy marketplace for AI, allowing these tools to share data and abilities in order to democratize access to the benefits of AI.

In accordance with these goals, Osiris will be an open network. Anyone can insert an AI Agent as long as it shares information according to the Osiris API and accepts/disburses payment according to Osiris’s economic logic. New AI Agents will come from AI developers who want access to Osiris’s marketplace and who want to boost their AI agent’s intelligence by linking it to other AIs in a cooperative network.

Like Uber and Airbnb, we have identified a large unexploited resource and a large market in need of that resource, and we are launching a tool to connect the two. The unexploited resource is AI algorithms and software on GitHub and elsewhere, and the market is the 99 percent of businesses that cannot afford a team of AI experts.

But in Osiris we also have a key added factor not present in these analogous cases: the apartments in AirBnB’s network do not combine to become meta-apartments, nor does Uber’s network create meta-cars, but AIs in Osiris’s network come together to form meta-AIs whose intelligence is more than the sums of their parts. An unprecedented combination of powerful network effects is here, waiting to kick in once the network of AIs and associated human communities reach sufficient size and maturity.