Seraphnet introduces an ideologically transparent Playground for Generative AI apps, powered by RAG technology and a powerful LLMOps infrastructure.
Our mission is to unlock the full potential of modern LLMs stifled by an inefficient and biased app layer.
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Nearly 38 years of experience combined.
Today we focus on the talented development, product, and research team driving the R&D work at Seraphnet.
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We couldn't have done this without each and every one of you, so a heartfelt thank you to all the community members for your time and effort.
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Seraphnet Changelog
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This week's article is centred around crewAI and how we use it in the context of prompt engineering, RAG and Swarm Manager.
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Seraphnet Changelog
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This week's article focuses on everything ops: Data Operations (DataOps), Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), Large Language Model Operations (LLMOps) and Kubernetes!
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Technical Update
#5
: Embracing Hydra
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This week, we delve into enhancing our Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) implementation by adopting the Hydra Template by
@Hydra_Framework
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We're delighted to announce
@nagoyacastle999
- Ljubisa Bojic, PhD as our Scientific Collaborator.
Alongside Dr. Bojic, we'll embark on a pioneering research program, aiming to publish our groundbreaking white paper in prestigious Q1 research journals.
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This time we'd like to focus on something a bit less technical, although equally important - the conceptual framework behind Seraphnet.
Today we'll talk about one of the key ideas called "ideological transparency in AI systems" - and why it matters to us.
Github Update
#1
: Introducing a new collaborator and establishing our core repositories.
We're very happy to welcome our newest collaborator, talented developer and aspiring AI PhD, Kamil:
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Strategic update - we are breaking free from relying only on commercial LLMs and embracing the open-source revolution with
@MistralAI
and
@lmsysorg
's Vicuna
More information in our newest blog post:
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Curious about the inner workings of AI apps?
Join us as we explore the data pipeline of Clearpill, Seraphnet's upcoming flagship GenAI app designed to remove ideological bias from text input ๐งต
We are excited to announce a significant revamp of Seraphnet's technical documentation on GitHub.
Our team has worked diligently to enhance the existing documentation, providing more detailed insights into our infrastructure.
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We're excited to announce the integration of Scrapegraph AI into our web scraping part of the infrastructure.
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In essence, Scrapegraph AI empowers our users to build intelligent Swarm Pods fueled by real-time web data.
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We are proudly announcing our very first ecosystem partnership with
@Rivalz_AI
.
By joining forces with Rivalz, Seraphnet gains a powerful ally in our mission to build the base layer for ideologically transparent generative AI apps.
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Introducing our Research-to-Airdrop Program
This invite-only initiative aims to measure Clearpill's current performance in a controllable manner.
Cohort 1 (20 testers) is opening this month.
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Seraphnet Changelog
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This kicks off a weekly series sharing insights into our data architecture, ops, prompt engineering, and more. This week, we dive into foundational elements of our data ecosystem.
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Over the last few weeks, our community has nearly doubled in size.
To welcome all the newcomers, we've prepared a brief summary that highlights the key elements of our project.
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We're happy to announce that we've just implemented chat-based prompting to our techstack, allowing for natural, adaptive, and context-aware AI conversations.
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Announcing our partnership with
@TalusNetwork
. Talus is building the Next-gen blockchain network for AI.
The alliance with Talus empowers Seraphnet to build a foundational layer leveraging Talus' high-performance blockchain and secure AI framework.
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We have been invited by
@zero1_labs
to participate in
@OasisProtocol
's AMA happening tomorrow.
Topic: current position of AI and the crypto industry.
If you are around that part of the metaverse, come join us.
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With our new partners
@zero1_labs
, weโll be deep diving into the current position of AI and the crypto industry
Including a guest appearance from
@oceanprotocol
and others!
Set your reminders!๐
Announcing our new partner project
@ChasmNetwork
.
Together, we're revolutionising AI apps development with a focus on privacy and ideological neutrality.
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Happy to announce our redesigned new website at ๐
What can you find there?
โข Explore our AI research through the white paper
โข Learn about our R&D efforts
โข Get access to early releases
โข Stay up to date with the changelog
With the conceptual foundation and some initial prototyping finished, we are now beginning the work on the Seraphnet's first release, set to premiere in May.
What can you expect?
- Playground V1
- Clearpill V1
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Proud to announce our latest technical achievement on the infrastructural level.
We're integrating
@replicate
and COG into the LLMOps part of our tech stack, increasing our capabilities.
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Exactly the reason why we need data processing and AI generation to be decentralised, unbiased and encrypted with FHE, to the greatest extent possible.
At Seraphnet we strive to provide just that, offering a more sovereign alternative.
They've gone full mask-off: ๐๐จ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ trust
@OpenAI
or its products (ChatGPT etc). There is only one reason for appointing an
@NSAGov
Director to your board. This is a willful, calculated betrayal of the rights of every person on Earth. You have been warned.
As we're wrapping up our first GenAI app proof-of-concept called Clearpill, we're also putting the finishing touches on a second PoC called Blockchain Sentiment Assistant, or BSA for short.
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We recently had a discussion about expanding the current functionality scope of our GenAI apps network for the blockchain ecosystem.
One of the most important elements we are working on revolves around the topic of Predictive AI.
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We're excited that our collaborator Kacper Szmigiel () is taking part in
@pprai2024
.
Kacper is working on his PhD at the University of Lodz, and we're happy to support his research.
Grayscale's new Decentralized Al Fund offers accredited investors exposure to blockchain and Al protocols.
At Seraphnet, this aligns with our mission to leverage decentralized technologies for innovative Al solutions.
Weโre pleased to announce the launch of our newest private placement investment product, Grayscale Decentralized AI Fund. Available to eligible accredited investors.
$NEAR $RNDR $FIL $LPT $TAO
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The future of AI is undoubtedly agentic. Autonomous systems that can plan, reason, and act independently will reshape our world.
Our mission: ensure they're built on decentralized infrastructure, respect privacy, and are ideologically unbiased.
We propose a decentralized, ideologically-transparent system, designed to unlock the full potential of commercial and open-source LLMs.
Seraphnetโs AI infrastructure does not stop at the surface-level but allows you to get to the essence of your task.
We have enhanced the Swarm Pods section, offering a more detailed look at these specialized modules managed by the Swarm Manager. Learn how they handle tasks within the AI ecosystem, enabling scalable and efficient operations.
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There are some voices that say the AI trend has reached its peak.
And then there is
@leopoldasch
who says that in reality, the AGI race has just started.
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Virtually nobody is pricing in what's coming in AI.
I wrote an essay series on the AGI strategic picture: from the trendlines in deep learning and counting the OOMs, to the international situation and The Project.
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead
If you've interacted with corporate chat apps connected to commercial LLMs, you might've noticed a certain tendency in their responses.
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It is official, our Discord is now open for conversations.
Join us as we redefine the ideological landscape of AI and build
a new generation of GenAI apps:
Commercial LLMs' performance is still unrivaled, BUT open-source LLMs (something we like to call 'alt-intelligence') are on the rise.
We wonder how adding specialized Agents on top of open-source models would change the final score?
Why Seraphnet?
We live in times of a fragmented society.
The operational paradigms of contemporary LLMs contribute to this issue.
Rather than providing holistic answers, users receive shards of information, effectively being prohibited from obtaining a critical perspective.
Technical Update
#6
: Qdrant as a Vector Database
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Recently, we integrated
@qdrant_engine
, a lightweight yet powerful vector database, into our workflows. Here's why it's a game-changer for us.
Our latest technical breakthrough in data management and feature engineering.
We have implemented Kedro Boot and FeatureForm integration into our data pipeline.
For detailed information, refer to the following link:
Swarm Pods a.k.a. Clearpills are specialized, ideologically-transparent GenAI apps.
Together with our intent-sensitive Swarm Manager they form a modular network of efficient, customizable GenAI apps trained on LLMOps utilizing multiple LLMs, fine-tuned by RAG technology.
Privacy and independence in AI are paramount.
@Tether_to
โs push for locally executable AI models could be a game-changer, ensuring our data remains in our hands.
Decentralized solutions are the future of secure AI.
OpenAI seems to have been hacked a while ago. Scary.
Locally executable AI models are the only way to protect people privacy and ensure resilience / independence.
New generation smartphones and laptops are more than powerful enough to fine tune general LLMs with user's own
Learn something new about GenAI with today's excellent Sunday read by Google's AI Director
@AliArsanjani
discussing "major architectural building blocks and blueprint for building end-to-end GenAI-based applications that are ready for production".
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To cater to non-technical users, Seraphnet's Clearpill GenAI suite boasts an exceptionally user-friendly interface within its architecture.
It incorporates a front-end UI seamlessly integrated with the Clearpill API for backend data management.
This allows data sources to be flexible and extensible, allowing for the integration of various new information sources as the ecosystem evolves.
Plurality of sources is key to make sure the infrastructure remains ideologically neutral.
Furthermore, the LLMOps part of the infrastructure called Forge allows users to generate their own Swarm Pods with ease - either using Seraphnetโs Premium services or completely on their own.
The diagram below presents an overview of our infrastructure.
Blockchain-based research in the field of LLM improvement has been significant in recent years and we strive to be at the AI x Web3 forefront of innovation.
Sign up for early access now if you want to be there too:
Playground V1 comes out in May.
A new ambitious player has entered the market of AGI/SSI. Their ideals seem to be aligned with ours.
Def something for the entire industry to keep an eye on, to learn and get inspired.
Superintelligence is within reach.
Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of ourโโ time.
We've started the worldโs first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.
Itโs called Safe Superintelligence
Seraphnet utilizes the Dremio Data Lakehouse architecture, built on top of Apache Iceberg, to distribute the data.
The Data Lakehouse is created with the Kedro data engineering framework, a toolbox for production-ready data science.
We wholeheartedly agree with
@ErikVoorhees
and
@TeanaTaylor
!
Once AI is safe and uncensored, the output data should be also as ideologically clean as possible.
Erik Voorhees' New Venture: Why AI Desperately Needs Privacy and Uncensorability
@ErikVoorhees
, a crypto OG, has launched Venice, a new project at the intersection of AI and crypto. He and Venice COO
@TeanaTaylor
came on Unchained to discuss everything about the project and:
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Seraphnet aims to bridge the world of Web3 and Web2 AI with multiple partnerships, with established AI projects such as ZenML, Cohere, Kedro and many more to come.
In Seraphnetโs V1 for RAG we use Cohere, an efficient and secure toolkit that allows LLMs to accurately answer questions and solve tasks using enterprise data as the source of truth.
Additionally, to further improve our RAG, we have integrated it with semantic search.
Seraphnet operates on a Pay-As-You-Go business model, providing flexibility and scalability to users based on their needs.
This approach allows users to pay only for the resources they consume, making the interaction with the infrastructure as cost-effective as possible.
Seraphnet's Data Ecosystem revolves around three main components: Data Pipeline, Data Lakehouse, and Databases.
The Data Pipeline automates the flow of data from one point to another, facilitating extraction, transformation, and loading processes.
Milestones at the horizon include:
โข May - Playground V1 release
โข June - RAG release, release of dClearpill
โข August - Forge LLMOps release, $DLLM Token Integration
โข September - os devs onboarding, grants program
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Our Data Lakehouse implementation stores data as parquet files organized into Iceberg tables, cataloged using the Nessie metadata service, allowing us to query data directly from the lakehouse without the need for a separate data warehouse.
Planned for May:
- Release of Clearpill's PoC (Currently accessible only to a selected group of Early Adopters)
- Release of Playground PoC (Same conditions)
- Reveal of a new GenAI PoC
- Reveal of the Research-to-Airdrop program
- Explainer Video
- New Partnerships
Want to read more? Find an executive summary of Seraphnet in the our pitch deck
Be sure to read our whitepaper and visit gitbook & website:
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โข Gitbook:
โข Website:
Beyond traditional data sources, it is our intention to ensure that the Web3-compatible versions of Clearpills, called dClearpills, are capable of accessing onchain data sources.
dClearpills will be able to directly interact with smart contracts.
kedro-sandbox - open source project showcasing Kedro capabilities.
main-pipeline - executive infrastructure for Digital Ocean.
Upcoming repos: Clearpill API.
Slowly gearing up for the release of Playground V1 and Clearpill V1. Details incoming soon!
V1 of Seraphnet implements FastAPI: fast web framework for building APIs with Python 3.10 based on standard Python type hints.
FastAPI not only enables seamless communication but also provides a dual-use capability, catering to both non-technical users and developers.
Seraphnet is developed by an experienced team, worked on AI, fintech, medtech:
โข CTO with 12 years of experience, AI Architect and ML/Data/Prompt Engineer
โข CPO with 8 years of experience, multiple R&D projects under belt
If you want to be up to date with what's happening in the project, your best place is our Discord, which we have just opened for communication.
Join here:
Our Data Lakehouse, built on
@dremio
combines the expansive storage capabilities of a data lake with the structured querying and management features of a data warehouse, enabling seamless data management and analysis at scale.
The key takeaway is: we are moving beyond fixed prompts.
The early version of our AI system relied on static, unchanging queries, limiting the potential for dynamic, multi-turn interactions.
We're changing that by embracing the power of chat prompting with DSPy.
To manage our diverse data sources, we leverage cutting-edge solutions like
@serperapi
, a low-cost Google Search API, and NewsNow: powerful news aggregation service, enriching our ecosystem with structured search data and real-time news content.
Who is eligible?
The program is open to 20 pre-selected participants, with 15 seats allocated to Early Access Tally applicants and 5 seats reserved for Early Adopters on our Discord server.
We aim to increase the number of testers as we progress.
The work done by Clearpill will be stored in
@qdrant_engine
's open-source vector search engine and vector database, making the subsequential inference cheaper and the network more efficient.
We strive to co-create the biggest decentralised ideologically neutral data base.
The synergy between our projects lies in the integration of our complementary technologies, creating an ecosystem that empowers developers to build AI applications with enhanced security, transparency, and interoperability.
Stay tuned as we keep you up to date with our progress.
Developers will find the revamped Serper API documentation particularly useful, as it now includes more detailed information on how to integrate and interact with Seraphnet's AI services, enabling them to build custom solutions with confidence.
Playground V1 will introduce an user-friendly console, where you will be able to compare our very first Clearpill's response against its commercial counterpart.
This will be a true test whether our app is efficient and ideologically-transparent.
Seraphnet revolves around three main products:
- Swarm Pods
- Swarm Manager
- Forge LLMOps
Together, they allows you to build and deploy transparent, ideologically unbiased generative AI apps that can accurately access and validate data from both on-chain and off-chain sources.
By strategically integrating cutting-edge technologies and diverse data sources, Seraphnet positions itself at the forefront of data management and analysis innovation, empowering our organization to derive valuable insights and drive informed decision-making.
Additionally, we're receiving mentorship from the talented team at
@zero1_labs
.
We also coordiante our researach efforts with
Together we form a young and aspiring, versatile and ambitious team.
Designing the data architecture in such a way is key while developing ideologically-transparent solutions, such as our upcoming Clearpill Swarm Pod that will be the first interactive element of our Playground.