When the majority of the people who are involved in Artificial Intelligence research believe that it is impossible to already have developed a working AGI system, doing this is an up-hill battle (but we did it). Especially with the incredible hype machine behind Deep Learning, and now Large Language Models, the media that informs the public is hardly interested in anything that goes against the current state of the field.

Although we did get some media attention over the last couple of years, eventually we decided that developing this technology could benefit from “flying under the radar”, known in the start-up world as 'stealth-mode'. This is basically what we did for the last few years, while developing the technology to the level it is now.

Now that the technology has already proved itself in testing and even (public) demonstrations, it is time to let the world know about ASTRID. That is why we now come out of stealth-mode.