The Story of Aigo

We may not sound like a Chatbot company, think like a Chatbot company or act like a Chatbot company — but that’s because we’ve never been interested in just making Chatbots.

We started Aigo because we want to make a difference.

Where did it all start

THE HISTORY OF AIGO

Our founder, AGI Pioneer, Peter Voss saw a different future more than twenty years ago.

We coined the term “AGI” (Artificial General Intelligence) over 20 years ago and have since been steadily moving towards this massively beneficial goal for humanity. Today, as technologies like ChatGPT highlight AI’s incredible potential, we are working towards making AGI an existential reality for everyone. AGI is set to [transform the world](/content/imagine/ "https://aigo.ai/imagine/"/index.html) as profoundly as fire, electricity, and the internet.

To create a future where the quality of life for everyone in society is radically improved as each one gets an increasingly intelligent and hyper-personalized assistant that significantly enhances productivity, engagement, problem-solving ability, and overall well-being. In short, radical abundance for everyone in a very pragmatic way.

20+ years in the making:

After taking his ERP software company to IPO and exiting, Peter spent about 5 years studying multiple aspects of intelligence. This included fundamental philosophical and epistemological questions such as ‘what is reality, and what is knowledge?’, ‘how do we obtain knowledge and certainty?’; exploring definitions of intelligence; working on a psychometric project to better understand how different dimensions of intelligence can be measured; studying differences between animal and human intelligence; and learning about cognitive development in children. Naturally, he also looked at software engineering (including knowledge bases and language development), and at many subfields of artificial intelligence, such as formal logic, rule systems, neural nets, machine learning, and cognitive architectures.

This research and development culminated in a new theory and model of human-like cognition and a conclusion that data & compute intense approaches like Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) cannot solve cognition; therefore, they can’t help us achieve AGI.

There is no “I” in AI without Cognition.

This resulted in developing our [“Integrated Neuro-Symbolic Architecture (INSA)”](/content/insa-integrated-neuro-symbolic-architecture/ "https://aigo.ai/insa-integrated-neuro-symbolic-architecture/"/index.html) that combines the accuracy and expressive power of symbolic systems together with the powerful non-brittle pattern matching ability of neural networks, deeply integrates all the cognitive mechanisms required by human-level/human-like intelligence while consuming 20 watts of power that our brains need rather than the massive power requirement for training and operating LLMs. LLMs are not the path for AGI.

INSA is the most viable and direct path to achieve AGI.

Aigo.ai

Aigo is the only company with both commercial proof and a clear plan to deliver AGI.

Aigo’s proto-AGI engine has already generated over $100M in revenue since 2008.

Now, we’re scaling that proven core into fully autonomous AGI, built on self-directed learning, real-time grounded reasoning, and a detailed execution roadmap.

2020 to mid-2024

Released proto-AGI engine that replaced 1000s of agents in the call centers generating 7-figure ARR.

2013-2019

To further AGI development, Peter formed a pure development company called AGI Innovations Inc (AGi3) and for seven years, AGI3 has been in stealth mode with 12 people working full-time increasing the IQ of Aigo.

2006-2013

Peter launched the company SmartAction – it was the first commercial successful product baseline-AGI engine and the first generation of Aigo.ai.

SmartAction’s focus was centered around commercial compliance, integration, security, scalability, and with very little time for further AGI development.

2001-2005

In 2001, Peter launched a 10-person R&D company called Adaptive A.I. Inc. (a2i2) to implement and experiment with Cognitive approach to AI.

Aigo Leadership

An entrepreneur in electronics, software systems, AI, and management, who has for the past 20 years been dedicated to advancing Artificial General Intelligence.

Peter Voss

CEO & Chief Scientist
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Srini Pagidyal

Co-Founder, Chief Value Officer
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Louise Gold, CPA

Chief Financial Officer
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Robert Lucy

Chief of Operations
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Bharat Gupte

Board Member
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Sekhar Puli

Board Advisor
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Uday Vedre

Board Advisor
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Carl Von Vivenot

Board Member
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We coined the term “AGI” (Artificial General Intelligence) over 20 years ago and have since been steadily moving towards this massively beneficial goal for humanity by leveraging our INSA – Integrated Neuro-Symbolic Architecture which facilitates Real-Time Incremental Autonomous Learning.