While some promising alternatives are being researched, we believe there is one particular approach that offers a smarter, safer and more sustainable foundation and, thus, a better path to general intelligence — based on our best scientific understanding of intelligence as it occurs in nature.

Over the past several years, our team of computer scientists, neuroscientists and engineers at VERSES AI Research Lab, led by our Chief Science Officer, Dr. Karl Friston, has developed this alternative approach, known as Active Inference, founded on first principles and guided by nature's blueprint for intelligence in biological systems.

In the spirit of cooperation and in accordance with The OpenAI Charter, we invite Open AI to connect and collaborate with us and evaluate our work, near-term goals and timelines with the hope that, upon validation, you will find our approach to building safe, intelligent systems to be the most promising path to benefiting humanity.