Why PAC

PAC is a planetary scale networked autonomous computing system of agents with each PAC node on the network acting on behalf of individuals or organisations to extend their capabilities, harness and protect their data, and enable interactions/transactions across the network using multi-agent cryptographically secure joint computing techniques.

Small p in pAC stands for "personal" meaning it works for every individual, small business, and highly personal to create self-sovereign agency and control at the node level

Capital P in PAC stands for "Planetary" meaning it is a networked autonomous system designed to work at planetary scale

Core trends and hypothesis

1. There will be model abundance. Multiple models — small and large, centralized and decentralized/on-device — all coexisting. Reasoning is no more centralized as special purpose models and on-device models are becoming accurate and cheaper. In addition, continual learning techniques will become commonplace enabling true intelligence abundance to take place.
2. There will be task/labour abundance. These are driven by AI agents, tools, and loops, taking AI beyond knowledge access towards complex multi-step task execution powered by multi-level reasoning.
3. Creation will be abundant as generative AI is eliminating the need for purpose specific approaches (code, UX, protocols, etc) to be replaced with meta/purpose-generic approaches. This means purpose specific software products/SaaS have little moat both for consumers and enterprises.
4. Intelligent personalization on the edges will be the norm. Consumer apps (super apps, special purpose apps, etc), as we know, will increasing lose relevance. Instead providers will offer agent-ready composable services with meta rules that will be dynamically composed by consumer's own agents generating necessary UX elements and workflows on-the-fly as required.
5. Human attention and intention arbitrage will be reimagined. Everything we know on the Internet is designed to assume humans are executing human intent, AI is flipping this on its head and will have massive implications on the way information is organized, curated, items are cataloged, how ads are working, and so on.
6. Value-chains will be unbundled when agents become your new customer! As intelligent agents can execute millions of times faster with billions of options evaluated, value-chains of today will get unbundled and rebundled having a topology of a fully decentralized network. This will move the true power to the edges of such decentralized networks - to consumers and providers.
7. Cryptography will shape new forms of guarantees. Generative AI, agentic execution, combined with cryptography will be the future of networked computing. Reasoning, agentic loops, and generative systems allow intelligent systems to, on-the-fly, generate negotiated outputs that can then be used to run deterministic sub-system tasks. The non-determinism of AI and determinism of traditional systems is powerful when combined. Cryptographic techniques are offering us various forms of guarantees - from access to proofs to executing multi-party privacy-preserving computations on a network.
8. True path to diffusion: While Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) efforts gave ID, credentials, and data in the hands of billions of users and small businesses, AI is giving enhanced human capability to them. Combined, we unlock the core three elements - ACCESS, TRUST, CAPABILITY - to 8 Bn individuals and 300+ million small businesses to leverage the coming intelligent economy!
9. Hence PAC! In the near future, every individual and organisation will have their own personal autonomous computing system where agents breakdown and execute their intents unburdening them from mundane, low-value-add tasks. Such a system will manage their data security and in a privacy-preserving manner within their personal node, enabling them with advanced reasoning and agentic execution capabilities. Each such node will be enabled to discover, trust, interact, compute, and transact with any other similar node, and thus forming a planetary scale networked autonomous computing system.
10. NETWORK IS THE AGI!

Inspiration

WWW -> Multi-agent Web -> Autonomous Networked Systems. The Web has historically been designed primarily around humans accessing information and applications. Consumer platforms competed to help humans access information via curated feeds, curated catalogs, curated social connections, driving the rise of consumer apps/platforms and ad economy. The next evolution is a Web in which agents become active participants where agents will act on-behalf of humans/businesses to execute their intents. Agents will discover, communicate, establish mutual trust, collaborate and execute, rather than merely serving as interfaces for humans. The hypothesis is that a trillion agents, running on diverse hardware and using diverse capability models, will eventually be connected to each other.

These agents will form an intelligent web. Rather than one large system doing everything, intelligence emerges from a network of many different agents and capabilities. The core difference is that in such a network, multiple agents will connect, negotiate, and co-author plans and securely execute the tasks in a highly privacy preserving manner while each node still deriving intelligence and achieving its goals.

PAC

AI is giving capability to the long tail. As agents move to the edge and become increasingly capable of execution, multiple models and heterogeneous hardware will coexist and connect. These agents can form an open intelligent network — beyond a multi-agent web — ultimately enabling autonomous networked joint computing.

Under Project PAC, we are building an autonomous networked computing system. Join us.

Where next

• Design -- what a node is meant to be.
• Architecture -- what is built today, and what is not.
• Repositories -- which repository to open for what you want to do.