The AI Algorithmist Behind Qubic's AI: Who Is David Vivancos

Most AI today is built by people chasing scale. David Vivancos spent thirty years walking toward something else - and he's one of the three minds behind Aigarth's brain.

David Vivancos doesn't come to AI from crypto. He comes to crypto from AI - three decades of it. He calls himself an "AI algorithmist," and the claim has receipts: work on virtual reality back in 1995, brain-computer interfaces in 1998, a GPT-like model as early as 2006, and by his own count more than 26,000 hours devoted to one question - how do you build a general intelligence, not just a bigger model?

The man who turned his own brain into a dataset

In 2014 Vivancos founded MindBigData, today the largest open dataset of multimodal brain signals for machine learning. The remarkable part isn't the size - it's how he built it. For two years he wired himself into a 128-channel EEG and recorded over a million of his own brain signals while looking at and thinking about the digits 0–9. That tells you the kind of researcher he is: one who'll spend years inside the experiment rather than around it.

That instinct - start from the living brain, not the convenient abstraction - is the through-line of everything he's done since.

Not a faster old idea. A different idea about what a neuron is.

With Dr. José Sánchez @josesanchezhb, Vivancos is co-inventor of Neuraxon - a blueprint for a more brain-like kind of computation, and the lead author of its papers. Where conventional neural networks speak in binary, Neuraxon speaks in three states: +1 to excite, −1 to inhibit, and a 0 in between that lets the system settle instead of snapping between extremes. It runs in continuous time, inputs always flowing; its synapses can strengthen, weaken, reconnect, and its neurons can even die - shaped by experience rather than frozen at training.

And Vivancos does what good open science demands: he puts it all out in the open. The full code is on GitHub under an MIT license. Interactive 3D demos run in your browser on Hugging Face - you can literally build and watch a brain. There's a live "world" at nxon.online where Neuraxon creatures breed and evolve 24/7, and an open dataset of a million simulated lives behind it. The papers are public, the reads are climbing, and the code is being cloned and run by strangers - the surest sign research is real.

The field is noticing

Neuraxon 2.0 won Best Evening Presentation at the 11th ICMLT in Berlin and is heading toward Scopus indexing. And the team's latest work - a Multi-Neuraxon architecture - was just accepted at AGI-26 in San Francisco this July, one of the most established venues in artificial general intelligence research. Vivancos has also spent years on the world's mainstream stages: ITU's AI for Good, Microsoft, PwC, Santander. This is not a niche crypto résumé.

He's also been writing it down

Vivancos has spent years putting his thinking into books - several of them, on where AI and human knowledge are heading. Three to start with: The End of Knowledge, on what happens when we hand knowledge to machines; Artificracy: When Machines Become Citizens (with a foreword from his Neuraxon co-author Dr. José Sánchez); and From Big Data to Artificial Intelligence. They're the long-form version of the same question the code is chasing - what intelligence is for, and who it's for. Worth a read if you want the worldview behind the work.

Why we're telling you this

At TesserAI, we're building a marketplace for verifiable AI on Qubic - and Aigarth is the most important ground we're building toward. The kind of intelligence Vivancos and the Qubic science team are growing - one that learns continuously, reasons from structure rather than memory, and can even hold a state that means I don't know - is exactly the kind of AI whose work can be verified. Their science is the bedrock a great deal of our own work rests on.

Right now, Vivancos is building Aigarth alongside Dr. José Sánchez and Come-from-Beyond @c___f___b.

If you want to follow the path toward TrueAI from the source, follow David Vivancos @VivancosDavid