Inference Cooperative: A Member-Governed AI Cooperative Goes Live
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Metagov co-leads founded the member-governed Inference Cooperative, registered the domain inference.coop, and built a working ChatGPT clone in a day or two. The cooperative is fiscally sponsored by Metagov; once membership reaches 50, a new charter is adopted, and members can set binding policies and remove the general manager. The platform lets users choose models and providers on demand for maximum privacy or maximum green energy, and agents now also run on the cooperative itself.
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The author explains founding the Inference Cooperative, a member-governed AI inference co-op registered at inference.coop and fiscally sponsored by the nonprofit Metagov, after exploring inference as a point of intervention for democratizing AI. Built with open-source tools and help from an agent called InferenceBot, it grew past 50 members in about a month and adopted a charter letting members set binding policies and remove the general manager. The co-op draws on US nonprofit law, Swiss and EU providers for green energy and privacy, and Chinese open-weights models, while the author acknowledges the models remain stained by stolen data and dirty energy.
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