MIT Event: The Future is the Agentic Web
Join Prof. Ramesh Raskar, 2016 Lemelson ("Engineering Nobel") Prize winner and Dr. Santanu Bhattacharya, Scientist at MIT Media Lab for an interactive discussion, as they unveil Project NANDA, pioneering the Internet of Agents for a trusted, open AI future.
Project Nanda, originally from MIT, is architecting the building blocks for the Internet of AI Agents in a three-phase roadmap. The first phase, Agent Foundations, builds on open protocols such as MCP and A2A by adding discoverability, trust, and reputation.
MCP and A2A have sparked a new wave of excitement around the agentic web, setting the stage for rapid innovation and collaboration. Open protocols like the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent2Agent (A2A) are enabling AI agents to interoperate seamlessly, making it easier for developers and enterprises to build powerful, agent-driven applications.
But what are the opportunities in the next two phases?
Agentic Commerce and Agentic Societies
Join Prof. Ramesh Raskar, MIT and Dr. Santanu Bhattacharya for an interactive discussion. Join a group of researchers, developers, founders and investors exploring opportunities in agentic web and latest developments in Project Nanda.
About Project Nanda at MIT
How can trillions of AI agents collaborate across organizational silos, communicate seamlessly, navigate autonomously on the internet, socialize, learn, earn and transact on our behalf. Project Nanda, which originated at MIT, is a collective creating a quilt in the post-AI world to build an open, vibrant agentic web. The project includes research, code base, standards and a venture hub. Roadmap includes trust layers, knowledge pricing, packet switched intelligence, population AI and privateML.
Research and Development Roadmap
Phase 1: Foundations of Agentic Web Build the core infrastructure enabling agents to find each other, communicate seamlessly across different platforms and protocols, and integrate easily into existing systems through standardized onboarding tools and interoperability frameworks.
Phase 2: Agentic Commerce Establish economic mechanisms where agents can price and trade knowledge, leverage distributed edge computing resources, and participate in marketplace systems with proper payment protocols and incentive structures for services and capabilities.
Phase 3: Society of Agents Create collective intelligence networks where large populations of agents can learn collaboratively while maintaining privacy, coordinate across organizational data boundaries, and distribute AI processing across networks to achieve emergent group behaviors.
Follow Project Nanda at MITLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/projectnanda/
Events Calendar: https://Lu.Ma/nanda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ProjectNANDA
GitHub repos https://github.com/projnanda
Homepage: https://projectnanda.org
MIT research group: https://nanda.mit.edu
Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/BxnPBEqd88
- We have many scientists from MIT on this trip. Get to know them at the YouTube channel or watch this video.
- Read the paper here or the summary at the LinkedIn page.
- To prepare for the hands-on tutorial, please create your own agent at join39.org and create a hosted agent that is discoverable on the web (you can upgrade a CrewAI or LangChain agent as well) here.