01 · CHANNELSInitial processing
Broaden our knowledge
Help process the initial selection from a new educational channel. Votes determine the order of addition.
Around $10
indicative amount per channel
Understand more.
Build together.
Knowledge is a shared resource. With PSI companion, help enrich it, choose the next languages and share your ideas. With your help, PSI will remain free to access and ad-free.
Free to access
for everyone
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Collaborative
your votes set the priorities
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Independent
thanks to your contributions
The first step: participate
PSI companion, your gateway to knowledge.
Installation and user guide →
YouTube
Videos and channels
PSI companion
Explore · suggest · contribute
PSI
Tuits and knowledge
Found an interesting video? Find its tuit, explore its channel on PSI and help make that knowledge accessible to everyone. The extension brings these actions together, directly in your browser.
Understand and explore without losing your place
From YouTube, open the tuit associated with a video and its PSI channel page. From a tuit, open its channel to discover more summaries.
Help discover useful content
Propose an educational channel. At first launch, explicitly choose whether to automatically send public metadata about the YouTube videos you browse; this sharing is independent of donations. After editorial approval, adding a channel selects the 15 newest videos longer than 10 minutes, regardless of age, then up to 75 other most-viewed videos longer than 10 minutes published within the 365 days before processing. New uploads are then followed.
Decide what comes next, together
Vote for a channel or language, contribute to the guestbook and express interest in the shop. These activities are free and independent of donations.
Quick access to tuits
Voluntary contributions
Free participation
Understand the PSI method →
From PSI 2.0, complete transcripts can be submitted after review, even for a channel not yet followed; they await an editorial decision.
Explore the knowledge classification →Your voice matters
What should we explore next?
Channels and languages receiving the most votes will be added first, among eligible proposals and when the necessary resources are available.
Vote for a language
First group: the 20 languages selected for PSI titles. French and English are already available on the site.
Alphabetical order follows the displayed language. Votes set priorities.
Other languages: gradually broaden coverage
Choose from the world’s 30 most spoken languages that do not appear in the first list.
Reference: total speakers (first and second language), Ethnologue 2026 table reproduced by Wikipedia. Language varieties are distinguished; Western Punjabi is offered separately from the Punjabi in the initial list.
Vote for a channel
Proposals must have educational value and comply with PSI’s editorial policy.
Voting is free. Donating does not grant extra votes or change a proposal’s position.
Rankings from approved proposals and channels added to PSI.
The 10 most requested channels
The 10 most recently added channels
The guestbook
A few words can help PSI grow.
Encouragement, a suggestion or constructive criticism: your feedback matters. Contribute anonymously, with a nickname or with your name. No donation is needed.
Words from the community
Messages will be moderated to keep this space welcoming. Constructive comments are encouraged.
No published messages yet. Contributions appear only after moderation.
An idea to decide together
Merchandise to support the project?
A support shop may open if the community expresses enough interest. Voting for this idea does not commit you to buying anything.
The curious minds mug
The free minds cap
The shared knowledge t-shirt
Three visual concepts to discuss and vote on. None of these items is on sale.
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Express your interest
An initial vote will measure interest in the shop. The threshold will be announced before voting opens.
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Choose the items
Designs, products and estimated prices will be put to a vote before being made available.
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Create together
A future design contest could invite the community to imagine new items supporting PSI.
Net proceeds, after manufacturing, selling and delivery costs, will support PSI.
A one-off gift. Or lasting support.
Choose an amount that suits you. Every contribution helps preserve free access to knowledge, without advertising or a required account.
Tangible goals
What will your support make possible?
Your contributions will help keep processing going, open new languages and strengthen our independence. The machines below illustrate capacity levels; the choice will depend on PSI’s needs and measured performance.
02 · LANGUAGESLaunch
Open a new language
Translate the tuit and interface. The cost varies with the number of tuit when a language is added.
Around $500
varies with the number of tuit to translate
03 · HOSTINGEvery year
Keep PSI available
Keep tuits available, fast to browse and free of advertising throughout the year. The $300 estimate covers hosting 1,000 channels in one language for a year. It grows with the catalogue: 1,000 channels in two languages would be about $600 a year. Producing summaries and purchasing hardware are separate goals below.
Around $300
per 1,000 channels / language / year
04 · CHANNEL HISTORYProcessing
Extend summaries to the complete history of channels
Cover the complete history of older videos with a transcript, for followed channels and content eligible under PSI’s editorial policy. Generalised processing is conditional on an appropriately sized workstation being fully funded and operational. It depends on local processing and scaling up; a donation provides no entitlement to processing a particular channel or video.
An outcome of increased capacity
funded through both processing tiers
05 · AUTONOMY64–128 GB
Process more locally
Increase local video processing capacity, from transcription to publication, with systems offering 64 to 128 GB of memory.
Apple · Mac miniExample workstation with 64 GB memory and a 2 TB SSD.
Apple · Mac StudioExample workstation with 128 GB memory and a 2 TB SSD.
NVIDIA · DGX Spark / GB10Example system with 128 GB memory and up to 4 TB SSD storage.
Examples of solutions for increasing local processing capacity.
$5,000–10,000
estimate depending on configuration
06 · CAPACITYAt least 512 GB
Prepare for growth
Increase computing, storage and publication capacity to reach and exceed one million pages, with systems offering at least 512 GB of memory.
Apple · Mac StudioExample workstation with 512 GB memory and 4 TB SSD storage or more.
NVIDIA · DGX Station / GB300Example system with 748 GB coherent memory.
Examples of solutions for increasing local processing capacity.
$50,000 and above
estimate depending on configuration
Support received and what it makes possible
Donations are totalled in US dollars using the daily reference exchange rate on the payment date, fixed for each donation. When no rate is published, the previous reference is used. Taxes and collection fees are not deducted.
Reference exchange rates used
Progress will be available once the service is connected.
Disclosed reassignments
Work in progress and completed
Estimated amounts in US dollars. Exact amounts are not yet fully defined. Hosting is estimated at around $300 per 1,000 channels, per language and per year.
Understanding local processing
From a new video to publication on PSI.
A local workstation should handle the entire workflow, not only transcription.
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Discovery
Discover new videos by checking channels in rotation.
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Transcription
Retrieve the available text or transcribe the audio.
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Analysis
Extract the main ideas and information.
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Critique
Assess the content and its limits.
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Classification
Organise knowledge by subject.
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Translation
Make summaries available in each language.
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Building
Prepare the site pages.
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Indexing
Update the search tools.
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Publication
Publish completed tuit during scheduled cycles.
64 GB
Local processing may be feasible
128 GB
Preferred capacity for local processing
512 GB +
Minimum target for scaling up
These capacities are sizing targets. Actual throughput will depend on the models, video volume, translations and concurrent processing.
PSI’S WORK CYCLE
How often are tuit processed and published?
Our servers work on an hourly cycle. Discovery of new videos, processing and publication of completed tuit are triggered regularly. Channels are checked in rotation, and processing may continue across several cycles. These are scheduled triggers, not a guaranteed publication time for each video.
Connect knowledge. Bring ideas to life.
In the age of artificial intelligence, let us cultivate our ability to understand, reason by analogy and imagine what connecting knowledge makes possible.
— PostSingularity Institute