Frontier AI models can now read papers, write code, run experiments and report what happened. That makes a certain kind of research suddenly cheap: the patient, trial-and-error kind that nobody has a business reason to pay for.
OpenPrototypes pools small donations, turns them into time on the most capable models available, and points that time at concrete problems in technology and science.
Everything is public
Every note, every run log, every prototype and every failure is published on GitHub as it happens, under the MIT license. You can use the results at work, in a product, anywhere.
We want to find out what AI can build when nobody owns the result.
How it works
- The community proposes and discusses ideas on Discord.
- Staff turn the best ones into projects with a clear goal.
- Donations fund the AI time. Agents research in public repos.
- Results are explained here, in the Journal, in plain words.
Who is behind it
OpenPrototypes is run by MaterIA Core, a small company in Madrid that handles donations and legal support. The organization itself is still being designed, and we want the community to help design it.