Why Democratize Intelligence?

The most crucial resources for building AI—compute, funding, talent, and research—are scarce for everyone except the biggest players.

Compute: Less than 1% of the GPUs we are projected to need exist right now—and most are controlled by a few large corporations. How much compute can you access?
Funding: The U.S. government's Stargate announcement committed $500 billion to one AI project led by the industry giants. How are you competing with other AI teams?
Talent: Top AI talent can receive over $10 million per year if they limit their orbit to a few elite AI labs. How are you hoping to attract talent?
Research: If Google researchers hadn't openly published the Transformer paper in 2017, the biggest AI labs of today might not exist—yet they now release only a tiny fraction of their research details. Without access to the latest breakthroughs, we risk wasting our time duplicating experiments as we race to out-research the giants. But as closed competitors profit from open research and investors reject open ventures, we’re working against a whole system of bad incentives.

A lot of people are investing in a future where AI is private with access and alignment decided by a select few, but almost no one actually wants this. That's where we come in.

What is DEMi doing?

Our focus on building an open future spans the entire AI stack. From alternative computing frameworks to novel open-source policy, whether hardware infrastructure or social coordination, we're rallying all high-agency builders in the AI community to join the DEMi network.

Together, we can redesign the future of AI. Help us help you connect with your next co-founder, find new funding, and meet other brilliant minds to make that next big breakthrough.