OpenCog Hyperon: SingularityNET introduces 6 RFPs to advance Beneficial General Intelligence
“The journey toward beneficial artificial intelligence is a collective endeavor… Together, we are pioneering a future where innovation knows no limits.”
— Dr. Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET & Chair of the OpenCog Foundation
We’re excited to announce a new wave of opportunity for visionary researchers, engineers, and innovators: $830K in grant funding is now available across a new round of OpenCog Hyperon RFPs.
This initiative is part of our ongoing mission to accelerate the development of beneficial AGI through the OpenCog Hyperon architecture, our MeTTa programming language, and the broader SingularityNET platform.
Explore OpenCog Hyperon RFPs full details here:
Proposal submissions close at 12:00 UTC on May 14, 2025.
What’s New in This Round?
This second OpenCog Hyperon RFPs Round focuses on six key challenge areas, each designed to tackle a critical dimension of BGI development:
- Advanced Knowledge Graph Tooling For AGI Systems: This RFP seeks the development of advanced tools and techniques for interfacing with, refining, and evaluating knowledge graphs that support reasoning in AGI systems / 10.000 – 200.000 USD in AGIX per proposal, 350.000 USD in AGIX RFP total max
- Concept Blending in MeTTa: Explore how symbolic reasoning and abstract pattern manipulation can be enabled through MeTTa to foster creativity in AGI / 30.000 – 60.000 USD in AGiX per proposal, 100.000 USD in AGIX RFP total max
- Neuro-symbolic DNN Architectures: Combine deep learning with symbolic logic to create robust and interpretable hybrid AGI systems / 40.000 – 100.000 USD in AGIX per proposal, 160.000 USD in AGIX RFP total max
- AGI Motivation Systems: Design frameworks that define and guide AGI behavior — safely, adaptively, and in alignment with human values / 15.000 – 30.000 USD in AGIX per proposal, 40.000 USD RFP total max
- Novel Hardware for AGI: Break free from conventional constraints by proposing AGI-optimized hardware and computing paradigms / 40.000 – 80.000 USD in AGIX per proposal, 80.000 USD in AGIX RFP total max
- Quantum Computing & AGI: Contribute to the foundational theory of AGI by exploring how quantum computation could be integrated with cognitive architectures / 20.000 – 100.000 USD in AGIX per proposal, 100.000 USD in AGIX RFP total max
Building on a Bold First Round
After a successful first round of OpenCog Hyperon RFPs, which launched 14 categories and awarded 18 proposals, this second iteration is focused on just 6 categories, but with higher budget caps. You can explore the highlights and funded proposals from the previous round here:
This new round builds on that momentum — with sharper focus, deeper questions, and a renewed call to action.
OpenCog Hyperon Overview
OpenCog Hyperon is an advanced cognitive framework aimed at achieving Beneficial General Intelligence (BGI) by integrating various AI algorithms with a distributed metagraph known as Atomspace. Developed by the SingularityNET Foundation, the OpenCog Community, and other partners, it represents a leap forward from the original OpenCog framework, referred to now as OpenCog Classic. It addresses scalability and incorporates advanced mathematical tools and logic for a more profound system design through an Open-Ended Intelligence approach.
OpenCog Hyperon represents a significant step in the quest for AGI and BGI, introducing a more scalable and powerful framework, integrating different AI paradigms into a unified system and facilitating cognitive synergy among different algorithms. OpenCog Hyperon internal dynamic fosters collaboration and enables a system that mimics human intelligence by learning and reasoning from accumulated knowledge.
The Role of the MeTTa Language
OpenCog Hyperon uses advanced math formulations to implement diverse algorithms in a common substrate by applying a small common set of mathematical operation actions to the Atomspace metagraph, in a new programming language named MeTTa designed for this very purpose. The name MeTTa for Hyperon’s BGI programming language originated as an acronym for Meta Type Talk; it’s also intentional that the name has resonance with the Buddhist term “metta” for loving kindness meditation.
MeTTa is a decentralized, self-modifying language designed for cognitive computations, enabling interoperability within the programming architecture. It unifies logic, probabilistic, and functional programming, facilitating AI algorithms implementation and evolution within the Atomspace. Metta’s is able to support neural-symbolic reasoning and handling uncertainties through probabilistic reasoning, a crucial capability in our pursuit of developing BGI.
Contribute to the development of the OpenCog Hyperon cognitive framework and take part in the collective construction of Beneficial General Intelligence.
Proposal submissions close at 12:00 UTC on May 14, 2025.
Together, we’re building a BGI that is not only powerful, but principled — and accessible to all.
With excited anticipation,
DeepFunding & OpenCog Hyperon Team
Learn More about SingularityNET’s OpenCog Hyperon and MeTTa language:
