Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (@ASI_Alliance): ASI – Pulse Series – Jan 1 to Jan 26th, 2026

ASI – Pulse Series – Jan 1 to Jan 26th, 2026 Welcome to the first ASI Pulse edition for 2026! The Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) Alliance kicked off the year with serious momentum across infrastructure, developer tools, and real-world deployment. While Fetch.ai pushed into enterprise territory with FetchCoder V2 and strengthened its partnership with Google Cloud, SingularityNET drove conversations around beneficial AGI through high-profile debates and collaborations, most notably partnering with AlphaTON Capital. CUDOS scaled ASI:Cloud beyond early access into a permissionless compute layer processing billions of inference tokens. Agents went from theory to production. Decentralized AI infrastructure hit scale. The vision is becoming reality. Here's the breakdown of what happened during the first few weeks of 2026… News of the month: SingularityNET and AlphaTON Capital Partner on Cocoon AI AlphaTON Capital and SingularityNET joined forces to accelerate Telegram's Cocoon AI, addressing the need for decentralized, privacy-preserving computing power. Cocoon AI enables users to maintain control over their data while accessing cutting-edge AI capabilities. The partnership aligns with AlphaTON's mission to bridge traditional finance with blockchain-powered innovation. Announced as a multi-party collaboration with CUDO Compute and Vertical Data, the initiative targets a core bottleneck for ethical, user-sovereign AI: access to serious GPU capacity without defaulting to centralized providers or sacrificing privacy. Cocoon AI’s premise is clear—users keep control of their data, while the infrastructure layer aims to make that promise real at production scale. What makes this partnership stand out is how “real-world deployment” it feels. The plan includes a new fleet of high-performance GPUs hosted in a hydroelectricity-powered data center in Sweden, designed to support privacy-preserving machine learning and encrypted user control throughout interactions. Vertical Data’s GPUFinancing.com structure adds another key piece: a financing pathway that helps decentralized AI networks scale compute faster, without relying on the same centralized capital stacks that usually dominate infrastructure rollouts. In other words, this isn’t just ideology but real execution: hardware, energy, funding, and protocols moving together. [Read the full announcement here] ⚡ Fetch.ai News - FetchCoder V2, Hackathons, and the Agentic Interop Summit with Google Cloud Fetch.ai Announces Hack@Brown Innovation Lab Hackathon Fetch.ai is taking over Brown University for a two-day hackathon starting January 31st. The event will bring developers together to build on the Fetch.ai stack, with workshops and hands-on coding sessions running through February 1st. The hackathon is designed to push real-world applications of agentic AI, giving builders direct access to the team and infrastructure. Although registrations are already closed, you can explore details live on Luma. Fetch.ai Launches FetchCoder V2 On the 15th of January, Fetch.ai released FetchCoder V2, an AI coding assistant built specifically for autonomous agent development. Unlike general-purpose coding tools, FetchCoder V2 addresses the unique challenges of building systems that coordinate across multiple agents, operate autonomously across platforms, and require safety-critical guardrails. The tool is designed for multi-agent orchestration, cross-system integration, and complex testing requirements that traditional coding assistants don't handle well. Agent development has different constraints than traditional software, and FetchCoder V2 treats it that way. [Read the full announcement] Fetch.ai CEO Discusses Apple and Google's Agentic AI Partnership Fetch.ai CEO Humayun Sheikh spoke with CNET about Apple's decision to integrate Google's Gemini into its AI systems. Sheikh emphasized that Google has the strongest understanding of how to train these models and implement proper guardrails, calling it a clear signal of where agentic AI is heading. The move reflects a broader shift toward agentic systems in consumer tech. [Read the full interview] Fetch.ai and Google Cloud Host Agentic Interop Summit Just before the Holidays, Fetch.ai and Google Cloud co-hosted an Agentic Interop Summit to showcase Gemini-powered agents and agent-to-agent interoperability within Agentverse. The partnership brings next-generation agentic capabilities into Agentverse, allowing builders to deploy real workflows at scale. The summit featured live demos and roadmap discussions between the two companies, signaling deeper integration ahead. Read the Fetch.ai Year in Review Fetch.ai published its year in review, highlighting the shift from a developer-focused protocol to a vertically integrated agent ecosystem. The company launched ASI:One for intelligent task orchestration, scaled Agentverse into one of the largest agent discovery and deployment hubs, and expanded the uAgents framework to power millions of agents across the network. The evolution positions Fetch.ai as infrastructure for businesses, developers, and consumers building with autonomous agents. [Explore the full recap here] The ASI:One Podcast Launches on Spotify The ASI:One podcast is now live on Spotify, featuring weekly conversations on technology, science, business, and culture. All episodes are produced by ASI:One intelligent agents, offering insider commentary and real-world perspectives on the future of AI. [Subscribe here] 🧬 SingularityNET News - Beneficial AGI Working Groups Ramping Up & Humanoid Robots Taking the Stage Beneficial AGI Working Groups Accelerate The BGI Nexus working groups shifted from planning to execution in early January. The focus is now on building coordination, transparency, and follow-through for 2026. The groups are grounding their work in shared values while keeping efforts action-oriented and accessible for new contributors. The goal is to avoid scattered or overly centralized initiatives while maintaining forward momentum. Learn more at bginexus.io. Mind Children Showcases Codey at Humanoids Summit Mind Children attended the Humanoids Summit in Silicon Valley with Codey, a child-sized humanoid robot designed for classrooms and care settings. The Seattle-based company prioritizes privacy safeguards, emotional safety, and low-cost deployment. Codey's higher-level reasoning and decision-making use AI components developed within the SingularityNET ecosystem. See them in action on Tech Journal. SingularityNET in the Media Dr. Ben Goertzel and Dr. Roman Yampolskiy debated whether AGI will lead to human extinction or unprecedented flourishing in a two-hour conversation. The debate explored the existential risks and opportunities of advanced AI systems. [Watch the full discussion here] Later on the same month, he sat down with technologist Jaron Lanier inside the new episode of the Ten Reckonings of AGI series, to discuss the practical realities of building and governing advanced AI systems. The conversation explored how far human empathy should extend to AI and future AGI, covering governance, alignment, and the social implications of increasingly capable systems. [Watch the full episode here] Dr. Goertzel also joined the Invisible Machines podcast to discuss the current state and future trajectory of the AI industry. The conversation covered Big Tech's focus on transformer scaling, the path toward human-level AGI through Hyperon, and the decentralized deployment of generally intelligent systems on ASI:Chain. Goertzel noted that SingularityNET is emerging from years of tooling development with infrastructure now working at scale for Hyperon. He also gave a keynote at the AI NeoRenaissance Festival in Oakland, California, on January 11th. The event also featured Codey Robot from Mind Children and a live performance by Desdemona and her band “Desdemona’s Dream”. The evening program explores the intersection of AI and music, bringing together researchers, artists, and technologists. ☁️ CUDOS News 2025 was a foundational year for ASI:Cloud. CUDOS moved from an early access launch to a full-stack, permissionless AI infrastructure layer. In September, CUDOS launched the beta with early access. In October, ASI:Cloud opened to everyone with wallet-based access to inference and compute, no KYC required. In November, CUDOS and the ASI Alliance launched the ASI:Accelerator Program to support AI and Web3 teams with permissionless compute, ecosystem support, and go-to-market alignment. The 2026 roadmap includes new open source inference models, speech-to-text and voice model integration, image and video generation, and fiat and credit card payments. ASI:Cloud Integrates WalletConnect CUDOS integrated WalletConnect into ASI:Cloud, improving the ETH payment flow and adding a new login and payment option. The update enables smoother ETH payments, mobile crypto payments, and more wallet-native access. The integration streamlines user experience for developers and teams building on the platform. ASI:Cloud Launches UI and Billing Improvements CUDOS rolled out the next evolution of ASI:Cloud with WalletConnect login and payments, improved billing visibility with PDF receipts and email notifications, and a cleaner, faster UI. The update reduces steps, improves tracking, and makes access smoother for developers. ASI:Cloud Processes Over 15 Billion Inference Tokens ASI:Cloud crossed 15 billion inference tokens processed, equivalent to 125,000 books or millions of real AI conversations. Tokens represent what models read and generate, and the milestone demonstrates the platform's growing adoption and scale. What's Next The foundation is set. Last year, the ASI Alliance launched ASI:Chain, scaled ASI:Cloud, and built the infrastructure that makes decentralized AI possible. We moved from concept to working systems. Now we build. 2026, from its first day, has been about deployment at scale. Expect hackathons across major universities bringing developers directly into the ecosystem. Expect increased media activity as we share what we're building with the world. Expect product roadmaps. The ASI:Chain roadmap is already live, and more are coming soon. We're mapping out exactly where each piece of the stack is headed and how it all connects. We're ready to build. And we're glad you're part of this journey. Stay tuned.