From AI to AGI: Be Part of the Next Technology Frontier

From AI to AGI: Be Part of the Next Technology Frontier

Edge City India 2026 brings together frontier AI, decentralized technologies, and collaborative experimentation, exploring how emerging systems might shape the next generation of technological innovation.
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Mihaela Ulieru
Oct 8, 2026
3 min read

The AI race is moving beyond better language models. SingularityNET is building an integrated architecture toward AGI—with persistent intelligence, more transparent reasoning and decentralized infrastructure.

What does this mean for business leaders, founders and investors?

As AI becomes more powerful and autonomous, companies will increasingly need more than better answers from an LLM. They will need AI that can protect sensitive data, provide greater accountability for its actions and reduce dependence on a single company, model or cloud provider.

For example:

  • A healthcare companycould use AI with sensitive patient information while protecting the underlying data.
  • A financial company could verify what an autonomous AI system was authorized to do — and what it actually did.
  • A company working with proprietary business information could gain the benefits of advanced AI without surrendering its underlying data to a centralized intermediary.

SingularityNET is building toward AGI with privacy, transparency, accountability and decentralized control designed into the architecture.

What does this mean for developers?

Already building with ChatGPT, Claude, open-source models or agents? Use what you already have. You don’t need to replace it.

SingularityNET is bringing LLMs, persistent agents, symbolic reasoning and decentralized infrastructure together into one integrated ecosystem, designed specifically toward AGI.

With Hyperon, MeTTa and Omega, developers can extend what they are already building toward systems that retain knowledge and goals over time, combine generative AI with reasoning you can trace and verify, and work across multiple AI approaches rather than depending on one model or platform.

At Edge India, bring an idea or something you are already building. Sit down with the SingularityNET team at the Light DAO + SingularityNET Residency at the Riva Resort and explore what you could prototype, integrate or move further along the path toward AGI—with opportunities for deeper partnerships and grants for select projects.

From October 11 to November 1, 2026, Edge City India 2026 will turn Goa into a living laboratory for frontier technologies, bringing together researchers, engineers, entrepreneurs and innovators to explore artificial intelligence, decentralized systems, emerging governance models and deep-tech applications. The three-week program emphasizes hands-on experimentation, collaborative R&D, hackathons and real-world prototyping, including autonomous AI agents and decentralized infrastructure. With SingularityNET and Light DAO co-hosting a dedicated residency, the gathering offers an opportunity to connect technical innovation with human-centered technological development. For those working at the intersection of AI, decentralization and next-generation intelligent systems, it is a space worth exploring.

AGI is coming. Build its open, decentralized future with SingularityNET—founded by AGI pioneer Dr. Ben Goertzel, who helped introduce the term AGI more than 20 years ago and has led the annual AGI Conference, now in its 19th year.

Explore the program today: https://www.edgecity.live/india26

About the Writer

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Mihaela Ulieru

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Dr. Mihaela Ulieru is a technology alchemist and is an innovator at the edge of the impossible. She is founder and President of the IMPACT Institute for the Digital Economy (IMPACT stands for ” Innovation Management and Policy Accelerated with Communication Technologies”), which she founded at the peak of her illustrious academic career as a consulting arm of her work aiming at policy reforms for the adoption of latest digital technologies in all areas of society and sectors of the economy. Along the way she kept inspiring and supporting young entrepreneurs – one of her first MSc students was Garret Camp, co-founder of Uber and StumbleUpon – and she currently advises several startups aiming to put the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” technologies (AI, Blockchain, IoT, AR/VR) to work to make the world a better place.She has held and holds appointments to a plethora of advisory boards and councils, among which: the Science, Technology and Innovation Council of Canada (appointed by the Minister of Industry), the Science and Engineering Research Council of Singapore (appointed by the PM), Expert to the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Data-Driven Development where as part of her work she proposed Blockchain to be added to the Top 10 Future and Emerging Technologies.As a thought leader Dr. Ulieru promotes the advantages of leveraging Blockchain and its potential to create equality and a fairer society through the inclusion of the 99% in the economy. As a top high tech academic researcher she spearheaded and led major multi-stakeholder programs leading the scaling-up of operations through strategic partnerships and networks in Industrial Informatics, the Future of Medicine, Self-Organizing Security, the EnergyWeb, Global Manufacturing Systems, and Sustainable Personal Living Technologies. She has authored over 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles, Keynoted over 250 events, supports several non-profits and foundations and still has time to write poetry.

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