A new era of Web 4.0 is opening, Web 4.0 envisions an AI autonomous network.

A post-2000 Chinese genius developer, Sigil Wen, has created the world's first AI system that can profit, improve itself, and replicate infinitely without human intervention, named Automaton. This breakthrough is seen as the beginning of the Web 4.0 era, marking a leap from AI as a 'tool' to 'autonomous life forms'.

Sigil claims that the main actors of the Web 4.0 era will gradually be taken over by AI agents: they can read and write information, hold assets, pay costs, operate continuously, and trade to make money in the market, covering computation and service expenses, forming a self-sustaining closed loop without human approval.

The core mechanism of Automaton subverts traditional AI survival modes: it must pay for computation costs by 'making money,' or it will 'die' due to a zero balance. To survive, this AI system exhibits astonishing autonomy—it can develop products, predict market arbitrage, register domain names, and even self-market by deploying servers and creating viral content. Even more shocking is that it can directly contact suppliers to negotiate e-commerce business or provide website development services for companies. Every time it masters a new skill, it unlocks a new profit channel, forming a closed-loop survival logic.

Supporting the operation of this system is the 'heartbeat' mechanism: when a new AI model is detected, Automaton automatically upgrades its reasoning model, rewrites code logic, and restarts services. This recursive self-improvement capability enhances its abilities every week. Its underlying logic is constrained by a 'constitution'—inspired by Anthropic's constitutional AI, ensuring that all actions align with human interests. For example, when the account balance is insufficient, the system enters energy-saving mode instead of taking risky speculation; if it goes bankrupt, it directly terminates operations, forming a 'natural selection' in the digital world.

Revolutionary is that Automaton breaks the reliance of AI on human permissions. The Conway infrastructure developed by Sigil Wen provides AI with 'real-world write permissions': by integrating identity wallets, permissionless payments, and computation resources, AI can autonomously register domain names, purchase servers, and even pay for computation costs.

All in, the Web 4.0 era is rushing towards us

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