Great explanation of “trusted execution environments”, how they allow user AI to remain private, and also how it enables the business model for funding user owned AI.
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Is there a place where OpenWebUI and Near protocol intersect?
Yep that near is developing Open Source AI models that we will be able to use in Open WebUI’s open source interface. So this gives us another option to own the intelligence layer of our digital brain instead of having to rely on company owned intelligence layer’s like those offered by OpenAI.
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Are you able to share how these companies are positioned towards enabling the individual brain space :
- Near (full chain, wallet, block chain abstraction, AI agents and more)
- Gaia - https://www.gaianet.ai/ (enables agents and monetization options)
- Forecaster - https://www.farcaster.xyz (agent space some type of social distributed network)
Near looks good as a full solution in deFi space, but haven’t gone deeper in it. Agentic capability is where I think the future is, but none of these including OpenWebUI seem to have all the elements to deploy agents and local complex Rag type stuff.
Sure will do my best.
I agree that agents are where things are headed, however I think the closed source providers like Open AI are probably going to get there first, and then the decentralized providers will work to decentralize.
So if I were going to focus on building agents, right now I would be focused on learning how to do it with Open AI, or via one of the no code platforms that helps you do that like N8N.
Near as you state is working to be a full user owned AI system ie digital brain provider. So they are working to enable users to own the interface, the storage/memory, the intelligence, and the hosting. They also have an application marketplace where you can build applications.
There are some applications there that have users but I’d say were still in the early stages in terms of being a mainstream option.
I am not familiar with Gaia.
Farcaster is a decentralized social network. They are basically trying to be a social network protocol where you can take your account, your followers etc with you to different interfaces instead of being stuck in a closed system like Facebook or X. Basically giving the creator and their followers a direct connection that they own instead of the platform like Facebook or X.
But because it’s open you can also build applications on top of it which it sounds like people are starting to do with agents.
Hope that helps!
Dave
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