February 14, 2025

Auki Labs Joins Intercognitive Foundation as a Founding Member

Since day one, we have been clear that the future of spatial computing and physical AI is bigger than our work at Auki Labs. The future that we envision is open, permissionless, interoperable and private. It is also impossible for just one company to bring to fruition.

When we first began working on the decentralized infrastructure for AI, it became painfully clear that something vital was missing, a shared foundation to make the physical world legible to machines. Not just for one company, or one platform, but for everyone. That is why we launched the Intercognitive Foundation: to coordinate the creation of open standards, shared infrastructure, and interoperable protocols that allow machines to perceive, position, and cooperate, securely, privately, and at scale. It is about making the world machine-readable.

Establishing global ecosystem standards for AI accessibility & interoperability

The Intercognitive Mission

Our mission is straightforward but ambitious: to build the connective tissue between the digital and physical worlds. We believe that for artificial intelligence to reach its full potential, it must be able to access and understand physical space in a verifiable, privacy-preserving, and decentralized manner. That means time synchronization across networks, identity standards for machines, shared spatial maps, and secure sensor data exchange. The physical world cannot remain a blind spot and the Intercognitive Foundation aims to remedy that.

We promote the development and deployment of the necessary infrastructure and protocols to make the physical world accessible to artificial intelligence.

The Foundation is proud to have been formed by a coalition of pioneering companies that share this vision. As founding members, Auki Labs, peaq, Mawari, and GEODNET have contributed foundational technology, years of experience, and a willingness to collaborate in the open. Each founding member brings a different strength, from spatial computing and edge rendering to DePIN networks and satellite-based geolocation, but what unites us is the belief that no single entity should own the infrastructure of the machine economy.

The Nine Pillars

Fundamental to the Intercognitive Foundation are the nine Pillars of AI Accessibility:

  • Identity - Machine passports
  • Fees - Peer-to-peer transactions
  • Maps - Navigate the world
  • Sensors - Perceive the world
  • Positioning - Finding itself
  • Compute - Augment capabilities
  • Connectivity - Always online
  • Orchestration - Harmonizing decentralized systems
  • Standards - Cohesive collaboration

Each of these pillars represents an area where interoperable and decentralized technology can offer a compelling alternative.

A Critical Juncture in History

We see this moment as a critical inflection point. As AI becomes more powerful and more embedded in the physical world, from autonomous drones to smart cities, we face a choice: centralize machine perception in the hands of a few, or build a decentralized alternative. The Intercognitive Foundation is committed to the latter. We are setting the stage for a future where physical AI infrastructure is open and accessible, resistant to monopolies, governed by community, and optimized for collaboration.

This is only the beginning. In the coming months, we will publish more details, launch grant programs, and invite developers, researchers, and organizations around the world to join us. If you believe that machine perception should be a public good, not a proprietary asset, we welcome you. Together, we can make the world machine-readable and ensure it stays open.

About the Intercognitive Foundation

The Intercognitive Foundation promotes the development and deployment of the necessary infrastructure and protocols to make the physical world accessible to artificial intelligence. Founded by Auki Labs, peaq, Mawari and GEODNET, is working to establish global ecosystem standards for AI accessibility & interoperability.

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About Auki Labs

Auki is building the Auki network, a decentralized machine perception network for the next 100 billion people, devices and AI on Earth and beyond. The Auki network is a posemesh, an external and collaborative sense of space that machines and AI can use to understand the physical world.

Our mission is to improve civilization’s intercognitive capacity; our ability to think, experience and solve problems together with each other and AI. The greatest way to extend human reach is to collaborate with others. We are building consciousness-expanding technology to reduce the friction of communication and bridge minds.

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About the Auki network

The Auki network is a posemesh: a decentralized machine perception network and collaborative spatial computing protocol, designed to allow digital devices to securely and privately exchange spatial data and computing power to form a shared understanding of the physical world.

The Auki network is an open-source protocol that powers a decentralized, blockchain-based spatial computing network. Designed for a future where spatial computing is both collaborative and privacy-preserving, it limits any organization's surveillance capabilities and encourages sovereign ownership of private maps of personal and public spaces.

The decentralization also offers a competitive advantage, especially in shared spatial computing sessions, AR for example, where low latency is crucial.

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