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Crowd-sourcing human energy toward building beneficial AI and AGI
Crowd-sourcing human energy toward building beneficial AI and AGI
Building a Compassionate and Abundant Future
BGI Nexus Grant Round One
Ten Projects Funded to Build Beneficial AI — Thanks to You
BGI Nexus Grant Round 01 is complete!
Over 1,100 voters helped prioritize $500,000 in funding across 10 powerful projects aligned with the vision of a compassionate and abundant future. Explore the results, methodology, and what comes next.
Over 1,100 voters helped prioritize $500,000 in funding across 10 powerful projects aligned with the vision of a compassionate and abundant future. Explore the results, methodology, and what comes next.
What Was This Round About?
After much anticipation, we’re proud to announce the results of the first BGI Nexus Grant Round and to celebrate ten groundbreaking projects that our global community has collectively prioritized for funding.
The BGI Nexus is a global community dedicated to advancing beneficial AI and AGI through collaborative development, transparent governance, and aligned resourcing. Together, we’re working to ensure that the growing power of AI is directed toward the flourishing of humanity, the biosphere, and future generations.
After much anticipation, we’re proud to announce the results of the first BGI Nexus Grant Round and to celebrate ten groundbreaking projects that our global community has collectively prioritized for funding.
- Theme: “Building a Compassionate and Abundant Future”
- $500,000 in funding made available
- Open to proposals using AI to address human, societal, and planetary needs
- Open participation in proposal submission, review, and voting
Quick Stats:
👉 91 proposals submitted
👉 70+ community reviewers
👉 1,177 voters
👉 9,036 pairwise votes
👉 10 projects funded
The BGI Nexus is a global community dedicated to advancing beneficial AI and AGI through collaborative development, transparent governance, and aligned resourcing. Together, we’re working to ensure that the growing power of AI is directed toward the flourishing of humanity, the biosphere, and future generations.
To mark the close of this pilot round, Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET and visionary behind the BGI Nexus initiative, shared these reflections:
"I am beyond thrilled to see the fantastic assemblage of ambitious, realistic, good-hearted projects that have emerged from the participatory decision process of this recent BGI Nexus funding round. It has always been key to SingularityNET's mandate to help actualize creative thinking regarding the use of decentralized AGI for the betterment of the human species and our environment. With AGI coming ever closer at remarkable speed, now is the time to bring reality to all our exciting visions of beneficial AI.
I am also aware there were many very worthy applications that didn't get funded in this round, and that the experimental community decision process used had strengths and weaknesses -- we will do further and larger BGI Nexus oriented funding rounds, and we will continue to learn and experiment regarding the practicalities of decentralized decision-making. We will move step by step toward realizing our vision of beneficial decentralized AGI, and I believe this first BGI Nexus funding round will constitute a significant step. Much gratitude to all who have participated and will continue to participate!"
I am also aware there were many very worthy applications that didn't get funded in this round, and that the experimental community decision process used had strengths and weaknesses -- we will do further and larger BGI Nexus oriented funding rounds, and we will continue to learn and experiment regarding the practicalities of decentralized decision-making. We will move step by step toward realizing our vision of beneficial decentralized AGI, and I believe this first BGI Nexus funding round will constitute a significant step. Much gratitude to all who have participated and will continue to participate!"
How It Worked - A Community-Led Process
Proposal Submission
Over 90 proposals from around the world spanning climate, health, governance, language, inclusion, and more.
Community & Technical Review
More than 70 volunteer reviewers scored projects for impact, innovation, ethics, and alignment. Scores were averaged across teams of reviewers, and proposals which met the minimum eligibility criteria moved forward in the process.
Finally, the Deep Funding community provided technical feasibility and team capability reviews. The 25 projects which met all thresholds moved on to the Voting Phase
Voting via Pairwise Comparison
How the Final Results Were Calculated
The final leaderboard combined two complementary components, per the round rules:
See more calculation details in the full blog announcement.
Congratulations to the following ten proposals, which emerged as top community priorities. Each project listed below received a grant (amount in parentheses) and a huge vote of confidence from the BGI community.
Farmlingua – Team Farmlingua ($45,000)
Multilingual AI for smallholder farmers
Think Inclusion Conferencing App – Remo Start ($45,000)
Inclusive design for global events
Sign Language Translator AI (SLTA) – Khasyahfr ($50,000)
AI-powered sign language translation
Project Lovelock – Living Libraries Network (LLN) – River Roberts ($48,888)
Decentralized ecological knowledge repositories
GlucoseDAO – Livia Zaharia ($50,000)
Open health and glucose data
BIONEXUS GAIA: AI for Regenerative Biodiversity – Clement ($50,000)
AI for biodiversity regeneration
AURORA: Decentralised AI for Carbon Credit Trust – Bob Weihai He ($50,000)
Decentralized AI for climate trust
Acropolis OS - Autonomous Community AGI – Fluran ($50,000)
AGI for autonomous communities
NigerGuard:AI Climate Resilience-Vulnerable States – Ladybriggy2025 ($46,000)
AI for climate resilience in vulnerable regions
Productivity EEG-AI Agents – Rakesh Jakati ($50,000)
Brain-signal-powered productivity agents
Full list of priority rankings and complete calculations can be found here.
The Journey Is Just Beginning
The ten funded projects are now beginning the hard — and joyful — work of building. As they complete each milestone, their funds will be released according to their proposed timelines and budgets, supporting steady, values-aligned development.
We look forward to sharing updates on their progress at the BGI Summit in October, where many will be featured alongside researchers, entrepreneurs, and change-makers shaping the future of beneficial AGI.
Inspired by the powerful themes and shared values across many proposals, BGI Nexus will also be launching a series of topic-oriented working groups this year. These groups will help define future grant round priorities and shape community pathways for funding, coordination, and support across key domains of beneficial AI.
To everyone who submitted, reviewed, voted, supported, or followed along — thank you. Your participation made this possible.
To stay connected and be notified of upcoming working group sessions and community gatherings, please:
Proposal Submission
Over 90 proposals from around the world spanning climate, health, governance, language, inclusion, and more.
Community & Technical Review
More than 70 volunteer reviewers scored projects for impact, innovation, ethics, and alignment. Scores were averaged across teams of reviewers, and proposals which met the minimum eligibility criteria moved forward in the process.
Finally, the Deep Funding community provided technical feasibility and team capability reviews. The 25 projects which met all thresholds moved on to the Voting Phase
Voting via Pairwise Comparison
- Finalists were voted on through a pairwise ranking process, where voters compared two proposals at a time.
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How the Final Results Were Calculated
The final leaderboard combined two complementary components, per the round rules:
- 60% Weighting: Community Review Score - Based on the summed impact and innovation scores from expert community reviewers
- 40% Weighting: Community Voting Outcome - Derived using an ELO 60-shuffle system which is a robust comparative method based on paired voting across 60 randomized iterations to mitigate chronological or other bias
See more calculation details in the full blog announcement.
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Meet The Winning ProposalsCongratulations to the following ten proposals, which emerged as top community priorities. Each project listed below received a grant (amount in parentheses) and a huge vote of confidence from the BGI community.
Farmlingua – Team Farmlingua ($45,000)
Multilingual AI for smallholder farmers
Think Inclusion Conferencing App – Remo Start ($45,000)
Inclusive design for global events
Sign Language Translator AI (SLTA) – Khasyahfr ($50,000)
AI-powered sign language translation
Project Lovelock – Living Libraries Network (LLN) – River Roberts ($48,888)
Decentralized ecological knowledge repositories
GlucoseDAO – Livia Zaharia ($50,000)
Open health and glucose data
BIONEXUS GAIA: AI for Regenerative Biodiversity – Clement ($50,000)
AI for biodiversity regeneration
AURORA: Decentralised AI for Carbon Credit Trust – Bob Weihai He ($50,000)
Decentralized AI for climate trust
Acropolis OS - Autonomous Community AGI – Fluran ($50,000)
AGI for autonomous communities
NigerGuard:AI Climate Resilience-Vulnerable States – Ladybriggy2025 ($46,000)
AI for climate resilience in vulnerable regions
Productivity EEG-AI Agents – Rakesh Jakati ($50,000)
Brain-signal-powered productivity agents
Full list of priority rankings and complete calculations can be found here.
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The Journey Is Just Beginning
The ten funded projects are now beginning the hard — and joyful — work of building. As they complete each milestone, their funds will be released according to their proposed timelines and budgets, supporting steady, values-aligned development.
We look forward to sharing updates on their progress at the BGI Summit in October, where many will be featured alongside researchers, entrepreneurs, and change-makers shaping the future of beneficial AGI.
Inspired by the powerful themes and shared values across many proposals, BGI Nexus will also be launching a series of topic-oriented working groups this year. These groups will help define future grant round priorities and shape community pathways for funding, coordination, and support across key domains of beneficial AI.
To everyone who submitted, reviewed, voted, supported, or followed along — thank you. Your participation made this possible.
To stay connected and be notified of upcoming working group sessions and community gatherings, please:
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