OpenAgents, an open-source artificial intelligence lab building Bitcoin-native infrastructure for machine learning, today announced its graduation from the BitcoinFi accelerator and the close of $1.3 million in pre-seed funding.
The company is using the capital to expand Pylon, its distributed compute node that lets people sell spare compute for Bitcoin, and to accelerate work on Psionic, its Rust-based machine learning framework for inference, fine-tuning, embeddings, image generation, and distributed training.
“America needs an open-source AI lab that can compete at the frontier without recreating the closed, centralized incentives of the biggest labs,” said Christopher David, founder and CEO of OpenAgents. “OpenAgents exists to build that lab in public. We are paying people directly for the compute, software, and data that make the system better.”
Pylon is OpenAgents’ compute miner. It runs on a contributor’s machine, connects to OpenAgents’ Nexus coordination layer, and makes selected local compute available to the network. Contributors are paid in Bitcoin through the hosted Nexus treasury for eligible work and launch-period payouts. This technology unlocks a path to earn bitcoin, not seen since the early days of Bitcoin mining, where come computers and GPUs were competitive enough in the hashrate race, and may introduce a whole new generation of gamers and AI fans to the cryptocurrency.
