Scaling Trust

Meet the R&D Creators

Our starting cohort of Track 2 and 3 creators are the first explorers on the journey.

Track 2 is the open-source cyber-physical agent stack. On the digital front, we’re funding several integrated approaches to secure agentic interactions, and agentic tooling such as TEE sandboxes. On the physical front, we’re funding a team embedding watermarks within robotic movements, and a team providing autonomous manufacturing data for others to use.

Overarching the digital and physical is a first integration partner, building an end-to-end application by combining the outputs of other Creators and their own work.

Everything is open-source by default, so the stack stays inspectable, contestable, and open for others to build beyond. Integrated tools and agents will compete under open-ended tasks and adversarial pressure in our Arena competition.

This cohort is a starting point. New teams will join through our rolling call for the stack and theory tracks, with grants awarded quarterly, some filling gaps the portfolio exposes, others extending the map entirely.

Our Track 3 project will be developing privacy techniques suited to AI workloads using cryptography techniques.