= Astera Institute
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https://astera.org/agi/
By the rich founder of <Mt. Gox> and Ripple, <Jed McCaleb>.
\Q[Obelisk is the Artificial General Intelligence laboratory at Astera. We are focused on the following problems: How does an agent continuously adapt to a changing environment and incorporate new information? In a complicated stochastic environment with sparse rewards, how does an agent associate rewards with the correct set of actions that led to those rewards? How does higher level planning arise?]