Antikythera is a research and development institute focused on understanding the evolution of planetary intelligence and envisioning its scaling through computational systems. 

Antikythera takes its name from the first known computer — the antikythera mechanism — which was an instrument for planetary orientation, navigation, prediction, and planning. The name serves as inspiration for investigations of computational technologies that not only provide immense feats of calculation, but also ones that reveal and accelerate planetary intelligence.

Antikythera is a school of thought rethinking the past, present, and future of planetary computation and developing outputs that span foresight, speculation, scenarios, and company-ready ideas. Studios, Lectures, Salons and Books and exhibitions are produced with a consortium of partners across academia and industry. Antikythera’s network of researchers and innovators work across design, technology, philosophy, engineering, international relations, social sciences, art and the humanities.

Antikythera is directed by philosopher of technology Benjamin Bratton. The organization’s research is based on his groundbreaking work defining the contours through which computation became a global system and an indelible constituent of planetary intelligence.” Bratton’s seminal book The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty, published by MIT Press in 2016, charted a new architecture of computational infrastructure and described in advance the next decade's developments in planetary computation. The book was widely influential across disciplines and cultures, with a 10th anniversary edition will be published next year.

Antikythera was founded in 2022 as an incubated project of the Berggruen Institute, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with offices in Los Angeles, Beijing, and Venice, which continues to provide fiscal sponsorship and foundational support.