Who created ecorouter and why?

EcoRouter was created by ChatGPTree, an initiative led by founder John Vincent Lee, with support from Compassion Ventures. It was developed by the ChatGPTree team alongside various collaborators, researchers, designers, and technologists.

Its purpose is rooted in the mission to help the growth of AI contribute to a more sustainable future. The team's vision is to build an AI network that becomes more useful and efficient the more it is used. By preserving, sharing, and reusing knowledge instead of generating every answer from scratch, and by routing new computation only when a question genuinely requires it, EcoRouter aims to create a shared knowledge layer that uses less unnecessary computation.