About and governance

What the Foundation does

Two things:

Free, open software, kept maintained. We host open-source software under the MIT licence. Anyone can download it, fork it and run it forever. We also aim to keep it maintained, so that as computers and AI change there is a new version to upgrade to, and no business is left alone with outdated software.
Guides for that software. We maintain the guides, so you can set it up yourself, or with your own AI.

That software includes the open garden: Infinity OS and the parts it is made of, each part to be released as its own open-source project under the MIT licence. Of those parts, only Infinite Brain's harness is public today.

Why a foundation, if anyone can copy the software? New operating systems, new computers and new AI features keep coming. The Foundation may publish updates you can download to upgrade your own copy, while your data never goes to a third party or its cloud. Without that, every business would have to become a small software company and maintain everything itself, forever. It is better for one central organisation to have the option, but not the obligation, to update it for everyone. We make no guarantee or commitment to provide updates.

If you'd rather not set it up yourself, hire someone experienced in implementing it. StarMynd, which founded the Foundation, offers this.

Everything else is StarMynd's: marketing, consulting, implementation, operations and education, including our YouTube channel. That is common: companies promote an open standard in their own marketing while selling services around it.

Your copy, your responsibility

When you download the software, your copy is yours, and so is the responsibility for how it is set up and used. The Foundation gives it away free, as is, with no warranty and no obligation to you (the MIT licence says the same). If a company installs it for you, that company's own service contract sets what it is responsible for.

Purpose

The Infinity OS Foundation exists for business education: to promote knowledge, across industry, of how AI factories work and how a business can own and run its own. It does this through the two jobs above. The open standard for factories, which it is being set up to steward, is part of that open work.

It runs no business's factory. It sells no software and no consulting.

Who funds it, and who staffs it

StarMynd funds and staffs the Foundation today. There is no second funder.

StarMynd is a company. It founded the Foundation, builds products on the same ideas and benefits when they spread. We declare the two separate, and the rules below say how they work together.

Why we set it up this way, in Andrew Warner's own words: Read Andrew's letter.

Legal status

The Foundation is being formed as a non-profit and is not yet incorporated. This site states no tax status, registration or filing, because none exists yet.

How we work

The entity does not exist yet, so these are the rules its founding documents are being written to carry. Judge us on whether they arrive there unchanged.

Separate, and declared so. We declare the Foundation and StarMynd separate. What the Foundation produces is the Foundation's. The factory architecture is designed to be owned by each business, not by StarMynd. Where the Foundation has access to a factory, that access stays with the Foundation.
Built together, and we say so. Infinity OS was born from StarMynd. StarMynd created the first products and handed them to the Foundation. StarMynd's products integrate with Infinity OS out of the box, because the two were built around each other for the factory world we believe in. They overlap: StarMynd leads customers to Infinity OS, and Infinity OS leads customers to StarMynd.
Open to everyone. We will not limit others from taking part. We actively work to integrate with other providers, so this becomes an industry standard and not a funnel for one company.
No favours for funders. No funder, StarMynd included, will receive endorsement, certification or terms unavailable to others.
Meeting notes published. The Foundation will publish its meeting notes.
Any model. Open source models and closed models all work with what we provide. We aim for a harness experience that works with any provider, and StarMynd does the same.
A first step. We are loyal to the mission, not to the form. This is a first step. Next, we aim to become a standard-setting body. Stage one, keeping free software maintained and keeping the guides for it, carries little conflict between the Foundation and StarMynd. StarMynd is the Foundation's temporary steward while the open standard is adopted and proven. That is the well-worn path: IBM, Google and Meta each led software they opened while it proved itself, then handed it to independent governance as it became a standard. We intend to do the same and transition to an independent body over time, as it makes sense. We are not setting dates. Stage two, if we reach it, will have its own governance, set out before we begin it. If a government body comes forward to set standards for the harness layer, we are open to it: we would evaluate working with it, working under it, or giving it our entire system. We are also open to handing our mantle of responsibility and our intellectual property to another non-profit, or to a private company that matches our mission and values. If stewardship ever moves, no one is stranded: everyone keeps the copy they downloaded, and only the maintenance moves. Until then, and whatever happens, we stick to our principles: option source for businesses, organisations, teams and individuals, so they can build their factories on architecture they own, use any AI, and not be tied into anything. Our plan.

Companies have handed open work to neutral non-profits for twenty five years. We tell those stories, the good and the bad, in Precedents.

What we will not claim

That the factory standard exists as a published standard. It is being defined.
That Infinity OS is released. It is being built, and nobody outside uses it yet.
That any industry, body or company follows us. None does today.
That pre-built factories will bring any particular result.