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Shaping the future of the metaverse

Pancasila is a tokenized investment syndicate dedicated to strategic investments in the emerging metaverse ecosystem, aiming to drive pro-social outcomes and address existential risks like climate change, leveraging the convergence of Mixed Reality, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence.

What is Pancasila

Pancasila is a tokenized investment syndicate for strategic investments into the emerging metaverse stack, which consists of a convergence of Mixed Reality (XR), Blockchain, and Artificial Intelligence as well as the underlying foundational infrastructure-, data-, and enablement layers. We aim to drive this toward prosocial outcomes by leveraging technology to address the existential risk of climate change, AI, and the unintended consequences of technology acceleration.

What is Pancasila

Pancasila’s central thesis is that by providing efficient compute, a decentralised web will decouple the economy from carbon and lead to a more equitable future. Our mission is to accelerate this shift as much as we can.

Current performance of Generative AI is a direct result of a doubling in compute resource to train large language models like ChatGPT that over the past decade has been 3 times faster than Moore’s Law.  Conversely, analysis by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz estimates that current demand for compute outstrips supply 10:1: “Access to compute resources — at the lowest total cost — has become a determining factor for the success of AI companies”, with the firm seeing portfolio companies spending up to 80% of capital raised exclusively on compute.

Pancasila was therefore founded around a cornerstone investment into MetaGravity who are developing a new compute framework for establishing the ‘cosmological physics’ of the metaverse, enabling uniformly distributed performance regardless of the complexity of scale imposed, unlocking the aforementioned compute bottlenecks.

Subsequently Pancasila has invested in the following compute stack of the metaverse (see table below) and seeks to build and invest in companies that we believe have disruptive potential across each horizontal layer.  It’s second investment is in Metacognitive, an orchestration layer serving as a top down control system to enable humans to benefit from ‘group flow’ with AI, and its third is Becoming a health and wellbeing education platform enabled by the two underlying technologies.

Application Layer
By Function
Sales
Marketing
Customer Support
General Productivity
Engineer-ing. (e.g., Code)
HR & Finance
Search
Design
Security /Compliance
By Vertical
Consumer
Tech
Legal
Gaming & Entertain.
Mobility
Industrials / Energy
Healthcare
Education
Proptech /Architectu
Enablement Layer (MLOps)
Model-Focused
Feature Engineering
Model Selection, Training & Tuning
Model Evaluation, Validation & Simulation
Model Monitoring &Observability
Data-Focused
Data Prep (Curation, Ingestion, Cleaning)
Data Labeling
Data Storage & Indexing (e.g., vector databases)
Data Mgmt. (e.g., versioning, governance)
Foundational Layer
Data (Real-world data, synthetic data)
Foundational Models
Cloud Storage
Hardware (GPUs, TPUs)

METAVERSE = INTERNET + BLOCKCHAIN + XR + AI

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:

  • GPT-4 and Conversational Interfaces
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Computer Learning
  • Machine Learning
  • Simultaneus Location & Mapping (SLAM)
  • Automated Content Creation
  • Suggestion Algorithms
  • Neural Radiance Fileds (NeRFs)
  • Coding Assistants

3D XR:

  • Volumetric Conferencing (Project Starline) and Lightfield Displays etc.
  • Avatars
  • Communication & Collaboration Tools
  • VR/AR/ MR (XR)
  • Volumetric Capture
  • Haptics
  • Scent
  • Spatial Audio
  • Game Engines (Creation Platforms)

BLOCKCHAIN:

  • Web3
  • Blockchain
  • Decentralized Ledger Technology (DLT)
  • Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT)
  • Tokens Coins
  • Distributed Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
  • Digital Land
  • Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
  • Smart Contracts
  • Cryptocurrencies

EXPLORE INVESTMENTS Current metaverse portfolio

Cloud Computing

MetaGravity

MetaGravity is building the distributed compute infrastructure for metaverse gaming and virtual world simulations. We offer game developers (1) arbitrary scale (2) transformational cloud cost efficiences and (3) cloud-agnostic / game-engine agnostic ease of use.

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Florence Shaffer

FAST Manager

Named among the Top 20 Women to Watch in both Luxury and in Business Disruption, Florence Shaffer is a Technology Executive who has led digital transformation for notable brands globally.

Florence’s work sits at the intersection of technology innovation, design, and people. Her 20 years of experience spans multiple industries and cultures – including beauty (Estée Lauder Companies), luxury fashion (Burberry), automotive (BMW), film (Lucasfilm), healthcare (Possible), and hospitality/food (Le Cordon...