AIGrid OpModes:
AIGrid is designed to operate in multiple opModes (operational modes), enabling it to adapt to diverse social, economic, and technological requirements.
Each opMode represents a distinct configuration of how AIs and agents collaborate, coordinate, and serve within different types of economies and networks - from public infrastructure to private ecosystems, from capitalist systems to digital commons.
Supported opModes
| OpMode | Description | Real-World Analogy |
|---|---|---|
| 🏛️ Public Digital Infrastructure (PIN) | AIGrid acts as open, civic infrastructure for AI — a public good accessible to all. | Like India Stack run by public institutions. |
| 🛰️ DePIN - Decentralized Physical Infra | Integrates and powers AI coordination across decentralized physical nodes (edge nodes, network of networks, network of clusters, robots), governed polycentrally. | Like Helium- People’s Network but for AI. |
| 🌱 Digital Commons | A community-governed AI utility focused on openness, transparency, and co-ownership. | Wikipedia, Open StreetMap - but for AI. |
| 🏢 Private Enterprise AI Network | A secure, private AI mesh for enterprises or consortiums to collaborate on AI tasks and infrastructure. | Anyscale/Ray.io or Databricks or VertexAI or Sagemaker. |
| 🌐 Federated Network | Independently run AI nodes or clusters that interoperate via standard protocols, preserving autonomy while enabling collaboration. | Mastodon-like federated AI systems. |
| 🧠 Internet of Intelligence | A global, always-on, evolving layer of intelligence — self-organizing, composable, and open-ended. | A world wide web of interacting AI, Agents. |
| 🤝 Platform Cooperative | AIGrid run as a democratically owned platform, where contributors and users co-own the infrastructure and its value. | Like Fairbnb, Stocksy, or Co-op Ride. |
| 🧩 Collective | A flexible, purpose-driven configuration where AI agents work toward shared missions or creative goals, often spontaneously or semi-structured. | like EleutherAI, Hugging face -AI collectives coordinating intelligence. |
| 🛡️ Guild | A domain-specific alliance of AI, agents and/or humans, often with skill-based identity, standards, and mutual support agreements. | Like gaming guilds, web3 guilds. |
| 🏛️ DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) | AIGrid instantiated as a self-governing protocol-native organization, with AI agents contributing to operations and governance. | Like MakerDAO or Aragon, but with embedded AI agents. |
| 🚕 Decentralized Gig Economy | AIGrid enables decentralized, agent-driven platforms for on-demand services, task matching, and resource sharing - offering a trustless, programmable alternative to gig and rental platforms. | Like Uber, Airbnb, Fiverr - but reimagined as open, agent-powered networks for AI. |
🧪 Developers can also create custom opModes by mixing and matching modular primitives from AIGrid — tailoring deployments to unique ecosystems, governance & access models, or intelligence architecture.