Aria Research Backs First AI Agent Teams With £50M Scaling Trust Fund

Aria Research has selected a group of researchers and developers, referred to as 'Creators,' to build open-source infrastructure enabling AI agents to coordinate securely in physical and digital environments. The selected teams will conduct fundamental research as part of Aria Research's £50 million Scaling Trust programme, which aims to enable AI agents to operate reliably on behalf of users. The organization states that secure coordination will unlock economically and socially valuable interactions previously inaccessible to autonomous systems, and Scaling Trust is accepting applications for new teams on a rolling basis with a deadline of Oct 31.