$1.3M-Funded OpenAgents Pays Gamers and Everyday PCs in Bitcoin via Pylon Distributed AI Network
OpenAgents secured $1.3M to expand its Pylon network, paying users in Bitcoin for their PC's spare compute power for AI tasks.Summary
OpenAgents, an AI lab focused on Bitcoin-native infrastructure, has raised $1.3 million in pre-seed funding to enhance its Pylon distributed compute network and its Psionic machine learning framework. Pylon allows individuals to contribute spare computing power from everyday PCs and gaming machines to the network and earn Bitcoin in return, drawing parallels to early Bitcoin mining. The network operates on open protocols familiar to the Bitcoin and Nostr communities, with Nexus serving as the coordination layer for work assignment and payouts. OpenAgents aims to build an open-source AI ecosystem that competes with centralized labs by incentivizing participants with Bitcoin for their compute, software, and data contributions. The company is also developing a suite of products including Probe (a coding agent), Autopilot (a desktop superapp), and Forge (a software-factory control plane). OpenAgents is actively seeking contributors through Bitcoin-paid bounties and is hiring machine learning engineers to further develop its distributed training capabilities.
(Source：Bitcoin Magazine)