Why we started AstraFoundry

AstraFoundry builds software and hardware infrastructure for the next generation of humans and agents.

What we believe

We believe the ultimate purpose of AGI is to understand the universe, and that modality is the bridge that gets it there.

Language was the first bridge. It let models read what people have written about the world. But the universe does not arrive as text. It arrives as images and sound, as motion, as measurements from instruments and as the behavior of physical things. Each modality is another way in, and understanding grows where they meet.

Why infrastructure

If agents are going to learn across modalities and work alongside people, they need places to do it: somewhere to collaborate, run code, see and make images, talk, keep memory and act in the world. Most of that infrastructure does not exist yet, or exists only as pieces that were built for people working alone.

That is the work AstraFoundry takes on, in software and in hardware.

Where we start

The first pieces are tools people use every day.

• Lyra is a workspace where people and agents think together, with conversation as the default surface and a canvas for everything that is better seen than read.
• Arion is voice input that recognizes Chinese, English and both mixed, entirely on your computer.
• Telo is a Telegram client with an agent beside the conversation.

Why open source

Infrastructure for everyone should be inspectable and runnable by anyone. Every product we make is open source, and where we run a hosted service, you can run the same software yourself.

If this is the kind of problem you want to work on, start with the code at github.com/AstraFoundry.