BrainDrive

The Future of AI is User-Owned

About BrainDrive

Our mission is to build a superior user-owned alternative to Big Tech AI systems.

A user-owned AI system built on the following pillars:

  1. Ownership - You own your AI system.
  2. Freedom - Your AI system is not restricted.
  3. Empowerment - Your AI system is easy to use, customize, and build on.
  4. Sustainability - Your AI system is financed via value creation, not platform lock-in.

Why this mission?

We lost control of our digital data and knowledge to Big Tech in the last phase of the internet, and they have used that control to:

  • Share our data without our permission
  • Earn hundreds of billions by selling our data to advertisers
  • Suppress free speech

Big Tech AI platforms like ChatGPT are putting this trend on steroids.

If we continue using Big Tech platforms it will mean:

  • Less Privacy - They will control our digital data and knowledge
  • Less Freedom - They will decide what we can and cannot do with AI
  • Less Wealth - They will be the primary beneficiaries of AI wealth creation

If we use an AI platform we own and control it will mean:

  • More Privacy - We will control our digital data and knowledge
  • More Freedom - We will decide what we do with AI
  • More Wealth - We will be the primary beneficiaries of AI wealth creation

How we do it

1) An Open, User-Owned Foundation

A foundation that provides user ownership and control over the five primary components of any AI system:

  1. The interface - How you interact with your AI system
  2. The memory - Your conversation history and how it is stored and retrieved
  3. The intelligence - The AI models you use
  4. The hosting - Where your AI system lives
  5. The connections - How your AI system connects with other systems and tools

This foundation must be permissionless and easy to build on.

2) Open, Community-Driven Innovation

Once we own the foundation, we can build an open community on top of that open foundation. An open community that drives innovation for ourselves, instead of for Big Tech companies.

Big Tech is huge, but there is far more capital and talent outside Big Tech than within it. Individuals will be far more motivated to build, innovate, and connect on a platform they own and control. This will allow us to drive more innovation and, as a result, a superior, open alternative to Big Tech's closed AI systems.

3) Open, Free Market Economy

Big Tech is not competing in the free market. They have captured the digital economy by building a network effect on their closed platforms.

An open, user-owned foundation and community are the key to unlocking the door to these closed platforms. Once open, capital and talent will flow from Big Tech's extractive systems to ones where creators capture the value they generate.

How BrainDrive Fits

We are not starting from zero in this fight. The open source community is making real progress across all the components needed for a superior user-owned alternative to Big Tech AI systems.

It is just that no one has brought it all together in a manner that is easy for the average person to use, customize, and build on. That is what BrainDrive is working to do.

To make it easy for anyone to build, control, and benefit from their own AI system. And to participate along with the rest of the open source community in building a superior, open alternative to Big Tech's closed systems.

Join Us

  • Install BrainDrive-Core, the user-owned foundation of your AI system.
  • Join the BrainDrive Community
  • Contribute to the BrainDrive open source project

Your AI. Your Rules.