Radically low cost.
Spend intelligence only where it changes the result. Use deterministic and local tools before expensive inference.
Ximing Zhou / Independent Research
Own your intelligence.
Cogvo studies the systems that decide who can build, access, price and govern machine intelligence. Every layer should be replaceable; no provider should become a permanent dependency.
Working thesis / 001
The user owns the objective. Every provider remains replaceable.
Engineering doctrine / 工程宗旨
No permanent lock-in.
Interfaces, data and workflows must survive the loss of any one model, company or network.
Replace the whole chain.
Model, compute, retrieval, tools, memory and payment are modules—not a single vendor bundle.
Route to the best fit.
Automatically choose the best open system for the task—or the least expensive route that clears the quality threshold.
Current lines of inquiry
Research at the boundary of code and institutions.
Who actually controls decentralized AI?
A living comparison of model, data, compute, access and governance layers.
Open atlas →Price intelligence by completed work.
Token Credit explores a task-based unit for comparing the real cost of AI systems.
Read AI Finance →Decentralization does not imply privacy.
A protocol can distribute execution while exposing every prompt to unknown operators.
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