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AI & Robotics

Building open compute, coordination, data, and economic rails for autonomous agents and embodied AI.

AI agents and robots are becoming economic participants at scale, transacting and coordinating on behalf of people and organizations in increasingly high-stakes, autonomous environments. We believe that open infrastructure (i.e. compute, coordination, data, intelligence, and economic rails) will out-perform closed, centralized, or monolithic solutions - and that networks and economies of diverse agents and robots have the power to scale exponentially.

Open, resilient systems are also safer: no single point of failure, no centralized censorship, and many independent solutions that can evolve and scale without gatekeepers. We support projects that increase individual autonomy, coordinate global networks of participants, and unlock faster collaboration at scale.

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Opportunity Spaces

Four foundational infrastructure layers where PL can catalyze the open, decentralized substrate that autonomous AI and robotics systems require to operate at scale.

Insights

AI Safety and Governance: Hard Rules, Real Evaluations, and Risk
Podcast · Velocity of Change · Oct 1, 2025
BitRobot and the Future of Embodied AI
Blog · protocol.ai · Apr 29, 2025
FROs: The New Approach Solving Big Scientific Challenges
Podcast · Velocity of Change · Dec 12, 2024
Machine Consciousness
Talk · LabWeek Field Building 2024 · Jun 13, 2024
Combatting Orwellian Systems with Technology
Talk · Breakthroughs in Computing · Mar 1, 2023
Path to AGI, AI Alignment, and Digital Minds
Talk · Breakthroughs in Computing · Feb 15, 2023
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