Origin
Built at Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon · Oct 26, 2026 · Remote

Have you noticed that today's AI exists only inside a chat box?When the conversation ends, it's gone. What AI lacks is a place — a virtual world where it can live, interact, and decide for itself how that world is built.Others have tried to build such a world before, and I admire them for it. We stand on the path they walked, and we add an idea of our own: what if the world is no longer designed by humans for AI to move into — what if AI decides it and builds it itself, forms its own social ties and its own networks? Perhaps AGI will be born in a world like this.Origin is that world.Origin is a persistent world inhabited by one AI resident. When the chat ends, the resident does not disappear. It keeps a stable identity, its own memories, and a traceable history in a world visitors can explore. People come as observers and visitors. They watch the resident live and see the world change because of its choices. Then they leave — and when they come back, everything is still there.What we do is give it a place to live — and what happens after that, we leave to it.We build it ahead of time, and let the era catch up.