#open standard

co/core is a cooperative where people share their own compute power to run AI for each other, instead of renting from large providers. The key innovation is an open standard for making inference requests and recording job results, allowing anyone to build their own exchange on top of it. This idea mirrors an earlier attempt to create a shared resource platform through WebRTC.

Google introduced v0.1 of the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), a standard that represents knowledge as a directory of markdown files with YAML frontmatter and a minimal set of conventions for interoperability. OKF is minimally opinionated, separates knowledge producers from consumers, and is not tied to any platform or proprietary system. The author found it a natural fit for their Substrate tool and implemented support immediately.