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On First Principles: Remembering Albert Einstein

18 Apr 2026

"The important thing is not to stop questioning," Einstein once said. "Curiosity has its own reason for existence." Seventy-one years ago today, Albert Einstein died in Princeton. He was still questioning. Pages of equations sat at his bedside. His genius was reasoning from first principles. A refusal to take the foundations on faith. A willingness to question inherited pictures of the world, and to begin again from the ground up when the old picture no longer fit. He rebuilt physics from a p

202617 Feb

Common Ground Core: From Agent Chaos to Structured Intelligence

The past year has seen an explosion of “agent frameworks.” Demos look impressive. Loops run. Tasks complete. But as soon as you try to scale beyond a single agent in isolation, things start to break in familiar ways: * Context gets lost * Deadlocks appear * Agents hallucinate into vacuums * Coordination collapses under real-world complexity Most agent stacks ship without a nervous system. They can act, but they cannot reliably coordinate. Unstructured intelligence is just entropy. We buil

20264 Feb

II-Agent V1 is Here

The open-source AI agent built for real work, now out of Beta. Introduction Today we're releasing II-Agent V1, the first production-ready version of our open-source intelligent assistant. It delivers state-of-the-art performance, scoring 61.8% on Terminal Bench and 45.1% on SWE Bench Pro. For months, thousands of builders used II-Agent in beta to ship apps, run research, and automate the work that used to take hours. They found bugs. They pushed limits. They told us what was missing. V1 is th

202519 Nov

II-Agent Chat

Any Model, All in One Place II-Agent Chat is now live. It’s a feature within II-Agent that lets you work across multiple models and tools in one place. The web-hosted version comes with Gemini 3, Sonnet 4.5, and GPT-5 ready to use out of the box. You can connect your own API keys, switch models within a single thread, and use them alongside Claude Skills, GPT-5 Code Interpreter, and text file search. II-Agent, the system powering Chat, is now state-of-the-art on Terminal Bench 2, the definiti

202530 Oct

II-Agent Beta Now Open

Today we’re opening II-Agent to everyone. Earlier this month, we rolled out the private beta with Bring Your Own Key (BYOK), Codex integration, editable slides, and full-stack web builds. Today at FII Institute's FII9, our founder Emad Mostaque, alongside FII Board member Peter Diamandis, announced SAGE, the Sovereign AI Governance Engine for policy in the intelligence age. Now, you can access part of our Sovereign AI stack and start building toward that vision at agent.ii.inc. What’s new

202523 Oct

Hosted II-Commons Beta

Featured update: December 18th, 2025 Hosted II-Commons Beta is Now Live Building on the datasets and APIs announced below, we are excited to launch the hosted II-Commons Beta. Powered by the latest Gemini 3 model, this new interactive interface transforms our backend capabilities into a seamless workspace for scientific exploration. Key updates include: * Unified Research Agent: Query arXiv and PubMed simultaneously in a single conversation, eliminating the need to switch contexts. * In-D

20251 Oct

II-Agent Update: Beta Web App, BYOK, Editable Slides, Codex

Introduction II-Agent updates and hosted web app beta are now live. These updates take the original II-Agent prototype you’ve seen and refines it into a fast, reliable product for everyday use. Waitlisted users can now try the web app on agent.ii.inc. Not on the waitlist? You can self-host the new II-Agent today, see public repo. Why a Web App, and Why Now The initial II-Agent release proved that agentic workflows can dramatically accelerate technical work, but our community told us they n

202522 Aug

The Last Economy

Today we are releasing The Last Economy, the first book of Intelligent Economics, a unified theory of economics for the Intelligence Age. Your economic life expectancy is shrinking. Not your job. Not your career. Your relevance as a human being in the economy itself. For 300,000 years, intelligence was scarce. Humans monopolised thinking. Education created value. Cognitive labour commanded a premium. That age is ending. In the next thousand days or so, intelligence becomes abundant. Machines

20255 Aug

II-Search

Introduction The II-Researcher framework is dedicated to producing powerful, open-source agents for complex research. Our latest additions to this initiative are II-Search-4B and II-Search-CIR-4B, two 4-billion-parameter language models designed to tackle complex information-seeking and open-ended research tasks. II-Search-4B introduces a three-phase SFT and one-phase RL curriculum that progressively stimulates tool use, refines multi-step reasoning, and applies rejection-sampling fine-tuning

202524 Jul

Master Plan (open source, not so secret 🤷🏾)

By: Emad Mostaque, Founder & CEO of Intelligent Internet A Great Decoupling is upon us. Our tools are about to out-think their makers, creating a crisis of meaning and threatening to obsolete human labor itself. The current path leads to a world where intelligence is centralized in opaque, godlike models and our agency is rented back to us as a subscription service. This is not a technical problem. It is a moral one. It demands a new social contract built on new code. The main aim of this pro

202524 Jul

Symbioism

Preamble: The Third Path “When two roads lead to ruin, wisdom builds a third way.” Humanity stands at a crossroads defined by a new form of power. The means of intellectual production can now be generated at near-zero cost. This inverts our world. The new scarcity is not capital, but trust, coordination, and verifiable truth. This power presents two paths to ruin. Down one lies the “Great Race”, a frantic, zero-sum contest to seize a monolithic AI, haunted by catastrophic risk and authoritar

202518 Jul

Commons Week: Building "Contexts" Together

Introduction: A Week of Context Commons Week has wrapped, launching Wave 2 of the II‑Commons open‑source initiative and we’re just getting started. The headline release is Common Ground, our multi‑agent collaboration framework that anchors the week’s work. Over five days we shipped three tightly‑linked releases that move us beyond code drops toward sharing our core thinking on human‑AI partnership. DateReleaseContext it BuildsTues 16 JulII‑Commons Wave 2 updateScientific & Technical: Arxiv a

202517 Jul

Common Ground

An Open Foundation for Advanced Human‑AI Collaboration Introduction We are proud to introduce Common Ground, an open‑source application and framework purpose‑built to forge a true partnership between humans and AI. It is more than a powerful multi‑agent system; it is the next cornerstone of the Intelligent Internet, an ecosystem where technology sharpens human intellect instead of dulling it. Unlike “answer engines” that work behind an opaque screen, Common Ground keeps reasoning in the open

202520 May

II-Agent

Model Card Your Open-Source Intelligent Assistant Introduction 2025 is the year of the Agent. AI capabilities have now reached human level in multiple domains and we will all have teams of agents at our fingertips to help us in our personal life, work and beyond. As the agent swarm arrives, connected by MCP, A2A and other protocols, we believe that it is essential that these have at the core solid, open, transparent and auditable foundation. This is particularly true for the things that re

202519 May

II-Commons

Featured Update: July 15th, 2025 What’s New in II-Commons Wave 2 Our second wave turns II-Commons from a pure knowledge-base toolkit into the backbone of a context-aware human-AI partnership. Highlights: * Wave 2 launch: Beyond just code. Two experimental applications and a scientific dataset ship today, signaling II-Commons expansion into a product series. Together, they build Procedural, Cognitive, Chronological, and Scientific context — rather than leaving users to reconstruct it thems