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@dominic_w 19 minutes goosebumps, incredible!

Dear ICP community, the Internet Computer has now been running strong for 5 years 👏👏👏 Here is a celebratory preview of ICP "cloud engines," the sovereign frontier cloud technology the network shall soon provide from opencloud.org. Main points: — Cloud engines enable anyone to spin up their own sovereign frontier cloud. The technology involves an extraordinary inventive step, in which cloud is created from a mathematically secure network of nodes. The nodes run as part of the Internet Computer network (internetcomputer.org) but are selected and configured by the cloud engine's owner. — The frontier cloud provided by engines is strongly focused on enabling AI agents to build and update online applications and services for us. The world is changing fast, and nearly all new online apps and services are already being built with the help of AI, and thus cloud engines target the future of cloud. — Software hosted on cloud engines is tamperproof, which means that it is immune to infrastructure hacks, because it runs inside a mathematically secure network protocol, rather than on computers directly. This means that AI agents, and those building with them, don't need to have a security team in the loop, or to trust someone else's security team. This is crucial, because in the future, non technical people will demand the freedom to build with full automation — where they just need to issue instructions to AI about what to build, and don't need to worry about anything or anyone else. Of course, apps and services running on engines are also vastly safer from the new breed of hacker being enabled by frontier AI. (The cloud engines themselves are also "tamperproof." Even if a hacker gains physical access to some portion of a cloud engine's nodes, and can make arbitrary changes, the computations and data of the hosted apps and services cannot be corrupted or interrupted so long as the network's fault bounds aren't exceeded. The recent hack of Vercel, a major cloud platform, which gave hackers access to the apps it hosted, provides additional perspective on the importance of this advantage.) — Software hosted on cloud engines is guaranteed to run, so long as a sufficient number of the engine's nodes are running. This means that AI can build applications and services without the need to have a human systems admin team constantly tinkering with the underlying platform to keep it running, which is again crucial, because in the future, non technical people will expect the freedom to use AI to build without the support of others. — New frontier programming language technology, in the form of the Motoko language developed by Caffeine Labs, leverages seminal "orthogonal persistence" technology that unifies program logic and data to deliver further unlocks for AI (Motoko is the first computer language being developed that targets agents that are writing software rather than humans engineers per se). Nowadays, AI can build and update production apps at a prodigious rate, even at the speed of conversation. But it can also make mistakes, and there's a risk that an update it creates might be "lossy" in the sense it causes some transformed data to be lost. Again, in this new world, it's both undesirable and impractical for everyone to have to have a systems admin team on-hand to detect lossy updates and roll them back, but Motoko provides a solution: it can detect new software updates are lossy before they are applied, reducing potentially catastrophic errors by AI to harmless coding retries. — Software hosted on cloud engines is "serverless" but unlike traditional serverless software, directly it directly incorporates data through "orthogonal persistence." Another key purpose is simplify backend software logic and fuel the modeling power of AI by increasing abstraction (sorry for the technical language!!!). Put simply, this enables AI to produce more sophisticated backends, faster, and at dramatically lower costs, as measured by the number AI API tokens consumed during coding. (Tip for the technical: orthogonal persistence is a new paradigm where "the program is the database," and data lives inside program variables, which is possible because it's as if hosted software runs forever in persistent memory). — An expanding database of skills at skills.internetcomputer.org shall make it possible to develop and directly deploy apps and services to your cloud engines directly from Claude Code, Perplexity, Codex and other AI platforms. Further, your account on caffeine.ai can be connected, so that new apps and updates created through conversation automatically appear hosted from your cloud engine. In the future, R&D is going to be very seamless. You converse with AI, and your secure and unstoppable apps or services are created or updated. Cloud engines are designed to directly support this "self-writing cloud" future where we can work hands-free. — Tech sovereignty is becoming a huge issue worldwide, with governments and corporations seeking to create sovereign tech stacks owing to geopolitical tensions. Increasingly, people are realizing that tech provided by foreign nations can come with hidden backdoors and kills switches, from the base platform, right up through hosted apps and services. ICP technology is open source, and those building on ICP using AI own their own source code. When you have the source code, you can verify that there are no backdoors, and when you own the source code thanks to AI, you can update it at will, freeing you from vendor lock-in. But cloud engines take sovereignty much further... — You create a cloud engine by selecting the nodes that will be combined. You can choose the class of nodes used, and their number, but more importantly, you can choose who operates the nodes, and where they are located. Almost any configuration is possible, because the Internet Computer scales the security privileges afforded to hosted software within the network according to configuration (software hosted on cloud engines can directly interoperate with software on other engines and traditional subnets, but base restrictions are applied according to security rules). A cloud engine can be created within a region such as Europe, to comply with regs such as GDPR, or completely within a sovereign state like Switzerland or Pakistan. But cloud engines go further still... — Sovereignty is also about freedom from vendor lock-in. Cloud engines are essentially ICP (Internet Computer Protocol) network configurations, and this means the underlying compute nodes they combine can be swapped out without interrupting their hosted apps and services. This is a big deal. In addition, cloud engines now support nodes that are instances running on Big Tech's clouds, in addition to nodes that are dedicated specialized hardware, as per the Gen I and Gen II nodes that dominate the Internet Computer today. For example, it is possible to have an engine running across different AWS data centers, say, and then reconfigure the engine to run across a mixture of AWS, Google, Azure and Hetzner for even more resilience, without the users of hosted apps and services noticing a thing. That's true freedom. — Sovereign AI is becoming increasingly important too, and cloud engines allow special "AI nodes" to be added to them, so that hosted software can perform inference on hardware provisioned by the owner from a location the owner has selected. Even though the AI nodes are only accessible within the cloud engine, they can still benefit from the forthcoming Internet Intelligence Gateway (IG), which will make it possible to validate inference performed on key frontier open weights LLMs, even when the inference is performed on completely independent AI clouds. When the results of inference are received, this technology can verify that neither the prompt+context (input) nor the inference result (output) have been modified, and that the results were produced by the precise LLM expected. This ensures that AI clouds don't cheat by running inference on cheaper models than are being paid for, and bad actors aren't modifying the inputs or outputs to surreptitiously insert advertising into results, say, or change facts, or insert malware when code is being generated. What's super cool about this technology is the cost of the verification is scalable. A very valuable additional security can be achieved with only 1-2% of extra cost. — Scaling apps and services when they hit capacity limits is another thorny problem that cloud engines help the world address. Engines make scaling possible without rewriting or reconfiguring software. The query workload capacity of hosted software can be horizontally scaled simply by adding new nodes to an engine, and nodes can also be added in geographical proximity to demand. Meanwhile, update workload capacity can first be scaled-up by swapping an engine's nodes out for the next class up, and then when no larger class of node is available, horizontally scaled-out by "splitting" the engine into two, which doubles available capacity. (Technical tip: horizontally scaling update capacity by splitting engines requires multi-canister architectures). — For those who have been following how Caffeine builds apps that can efficiently store large numbers of files, I should mention that apps built on cloud engines will also support the new ICP Blob Storage cloud network (since cloud engines currently have up to about 3 TB of memory, which apps storing large amounts of files can easily exceed). We are also working on allowing blob storage nodes to be added to cloud engines, to enable sovereign mass blob storage within an engine, similarly to how AI nodes can be added currently. — Lastly, but certainly not least, I should mention that cloud engines are multi-blockchain capable, and ready for digital assets, thanks to the clever math at their core. For example, an e-commerce service built on a cloud engine can securely accept and custody stablecoin payments, or a multi-chain DEX could be hosted. Further, engines can support software autonomy (software orchestrated and controlled by other autonomous software, in a decentralized way) and can themselves be orchestrated by SNS technology, and thus run autonomously too. Today, though, the focus is on *mainstream* cloud. This year, the cloud industry will generate approximately one trillion dollars in revenue. That number is already huge, but is expected to grow to two trillion dollars by 2030. After years of continuous development, which have seen more than $500m spent on R&D, the Internet Computer network is now tacking directly toward this mainstream cloud market with cloud engine technology. In their first version, cloud engines are not meant to be a cloud panacea. For example, currently they are not ideal for working with big data. You should use something like DataBricks for that. Cloud engines are carefully targeted at enabling AI to produce traditional online applications and services, including SaaS, in a safer and more productive way, which represents a new market segment with tremendous potential. Of course, DFINITY will continue to work relentlessly to push forward ICP's capabilities, so expect further developments. It's worth mentioning that this cloud segment isn't just about creating new apps and services using AI, it's also about replacing legacy systems and apps built on super expensive SaaS services. Caffeine Labs is working to produce technology (Caffeine Snorkel) that can study an enterprise's legacy systems and app built on SaaS, create replacement systems and apps, and migrate the data, while supporting key stakeholders through the process over email and chat, with full automation. Thus the legacy systems and SaaS markets shall also be addressed by cloud engines. Zooming out, and reasoning in a more metaphysical way, we believe, as we always have, that there is room for a new kind of cloud created by mathematical networks, that provides seminal advances in the fields of security and resilience, as well as true sovereignty and freedom from lock-in. That this same technology, with the help of additional technologies like orthogonal persistence and Motoko, enables AI to build for us without the need for so much oversight, and to create more backend sophistication while consuming fewer AI API tokens, enables ICP to bring game-changing advances to the world. Cloud engines will work synergistically with the Intelligence Gateway, which will enable apps and services running on engines to seamlessly leverage AI, wherever that AI is running, while providing verifiability at extremely low cost for open weights frontier models. We believe that cloud engines represent an inflection point in the storied history of the Internet Computer project, and I'm very proud to be sharing the details with you on the network's fifth birthday 💪 I'll be back with more news soon!!

@PierreSamaties great talk, thank you :)

Thanks everyone for joining the space today!

@its_daxxx @dominic_w No, for the Cloud Engines demo keep an eye on Dom's X account tomorrow. Its going to be epic.

Wordpress on $ICP : lightning fast ⚡️

@le0maiajr @alexalbert__ 😂😭

@alexalbert__ i wonder why Anthropic dont do the same with their own apps

With the help of Claude Mythos Preview, the Firefox team fixed more security bugs in April than in the past 15 months combined.

@mdtrade Talking of ambitious, we are running @Wordpress, which drive 43% of the internet websites, directly on $ICP! And you can add @WooCommerce to the list!@WaspTechnology

@WaspTechnology @dfinity ah, got it!

@niftyfiftyfifty @dfinity Almost :) We have develop WASql, a fork of SQLite which we integrated in a canister, added multi-user and transaction.

WordPress now runs on the Internet Computer. That's thanks to the @WaspTechnology team. This includes: - Frontend and WP-admin - No external database - No off-chain cache - No proxy or TEE VPS. Just canisters. x.com/WaspTechnology…

PAKISTAN DEBUTED ITS FIRST CLOUD ENGINE ON ICP Pakistan has launched its first Cloud Engine on the Internet Computer network (@Dfinity). This milestone, achieved in partnership with the Pakistan Digital Authority, introduces a dedicated Pakistan Subnet that delivers sovereign AI-native infrastructure. Sensitive data remains in-country while enabling the development of secure, tamper-resistant software systems built for the AI era. The deployment is now live, visualized as a glowing blue network of connected nodes across a map of Pakistan, marking a major step forward in decentralized cloud technology for the region.

@AaronPsy01 @ZeroFuxBJ @caffeineai He was cool back in the day. I've put my first website on ICP with his help years ago. But suddenly he became an annoying emotional crybaby. Sad.

@ZeroFuxBJ @caffeineai Wasnt he trying to build a website on $ICP? All Caffeine does is build web apps for the blockchain!

“I really don't think vibe coding has any business on a distributed ledger. It's perfect for cloud computing infrastructure…blah blah blah” $ICP IS a $CLOUD computing network ffs. & @caffeineai SLAPS! DFINITY isn’t trying to build “just another ledger.” They’re trying to reinvent the internet tech stack itself. Native BTC, ETH integration and “ledger technology” are FEATURES of ICP, not the entire purpose. Even if something like Kaspa $KAS became the dominant ledger for payments/security, it could STILL coexist with ICP being the decentralized cloud/software layer powering the internet. You’re analyzing ICP like it’s only competing as a transaction ledger, when it’s actually competing with AWS, Google Cloud, backend infrastructure and the traditional web stack itself. ICP IS FUGGIN BEAUTIFULL!

@chainspect_app @dfinity That's just the beginning. $ICP

Activity on @dfinity keeps climbing to new highs ICP just pushed past 171M transactions in a single day, setting an absolute record across all networks in Web3 This is what a sovereign cloud built to scale AI looks like in action 📊 chainspect.app/chain/icp?rang…

I uploaded a ZIP file of a more complex Claude app to @caffeineai for $ICP migration. I also uploaded PDF and HTML files that Caffeine was perfectly able to analyze. Not today, but from around 19 to 21 April. In other words, weeks before today’s update. mysterious 👀

@kristoferlund x.com/i/status/20520… It was possible to upload zips and PDFs weeks before todays update How's this possible? 😅

Game changer.

@fuzzzypan @claudeai @SpaceX So cool! Now tell it to prevent Z-fighting to get rid of the flickering surfaces.

@claudeai @SpaceX Opus 4.7 is just amazing, one shotted this

We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity. This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.

@caffeineai today? I used this feature a few weeks ago and migrated a Claude app to $ICP (which worked pretty well).

Your Caffeine project belongs to you. Take it anywhere, edit it in any code editor, hand it to anyone. Today we've added Zip Upload. Download your project as a .zip. Open it in any code editor. Make your changes. Re-upload. Done. Or hand it to a collaborator - no accounts, no invite flows, no friction. Your app doesn't live on our stack because we say so. It lives here because you want it to.

@ghhosttdn42 U worked at bitstamp before?

Today I was fired from Coinbase. During my 6 years at the company I was responsible for freezing customer accounts for no reason

@XnoneICP @caffeineai Tell her you get very angry if she doesn't fix the issues in the next build.

@caffeineai it would be nice if, when an issue isn’t fixed, the credits are refunded (or partially refunded) . I’ve wasted more than 60 credits. #icp #caffeineai

@caffeineai @WaterNetwork1 Beautiful

The team from the @WaterNetwork1 built their website on @caffeineai to support their work to protect endangered birds. TRAE Art combines the beauty of wildlife art with meaningful conservation action. Through their site they showcase stunning artwork of endangered bird species while channeling 85% of all donations directly to top-ranked conservation partners. Take a look at their work: artforbirds.org x.com/WaterNetwork1/…

@HamdanMohammed That's how you do it! And $ICP plays a big role I guess 👀

Under the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum , we are launching today a new initiative to transform towards Agentic AI (self-executing and self-leading artificial intelligence) in Dubai’s private sector. Our goal is for Dubai to become the world’s leading city in adopting these technologies economically and commercially — giving us a new competitive edge for the future. The transformation program spans two years and includes specialized training tracks for all business councils affiliated with the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry. We have also directed the Chamber to establish incubators for Agentic AI companies to support this transformation, create new economic opportunities for young people in this field, and set up dedicated funds to back this new shift. Our objective is to empower our companies to adopt these technologies that will boost productivity, expand business volumes, and reshape the city — making its economy the best in the world in adopting Agentic AI technologies. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid is today leading a comprehensive movement to reshape Dubai into the world’s most future-ready city — technologically, economically, in infrastructure, and with facilities that elevate quality of life to standards no one has reached before.