founder of Atlas and 404
Joined September 2009
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some of my early work on #AI generated #architecture #design published by ERA 21 - era21.cz/en/contents/2019/4/
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Subnet 17 just turned on its meter.
Personal API keys pay-as-you-go credits live for 404—GEN's Blender add-on.
No subscriptions, automatic refunds on failed gens.
The rails to go from community tool → creator ecosystem. Unity next.
app.404.xyz
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A new era of AI-native gaming is coming powered by 404 & Atlas - more soon.
cloud.google.com/transform/a…
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ICYMI: We are sharing an exclusive look at Colony LIVE @Official_GDC!
If you are attending make sure you stop by and meet some of the team at the @googlecloud booth #1227 and get a look first hand!
You can also read about Colony featured in Google Cloud's latest blog found below:
cloud.google.com/transform/a…
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ben james retweeted
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TODAY ON 11AM:
– @Houlgrave on stablecoin payments at the local checkout
– @6329 on Bittensor, subnets and 3D worlds
Live at 11AM ET ↓
x.com/i/broadcasts/1RKjpzaEm…
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404 now supports mesh generation! Running experiments & testing features to build next - open to suggestions ⬇️
app.404.xyz/
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Our award-winning game is in early access!
Chapter 1 (alpha) live.
Chapter 2 coming soon.
Featuring 12,000 SN 17 generated assets.
Play it here (desktop version only):
dream.404.xyz/
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Competition 2: Mesh Generation
🦾 Until now, our subnet has focused on Gaussian splats. That work led to integrations with Unity, building the world’s largest 3D dataset, and early application deployments with real users and organic traffic growth.
🕹️ The next step is clear. Developers want native mesh generation that drops straight into existing game pipelines and unlocks real production use today.
🤖 Our competition format lets us move flexibly between goals, optimizing for near term commercial utility with meshes and balancing longer term research with Gaussian splat world models and digital twins.
📈 With significant open source mesh models releasing in the past weeks, the timing is right and the bar for miner innovation has never been higher.
Mesh competition launches in 2 weeks!
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Month one of our first competition:
🔬1,000 miner submissions, all inferenced and evaluated via @TargonCompute.
🦾7 different winners across 11 rounds, a strong signal that open source competition is working.
🔍New SOTA approaches emerged, including building multi- AI network pipelines that materially improved 3D quality (e.g. through generating novel views).
🤝Miners actively self-monitored and helped refine incentives and reward functions.
Next competition - 3D Mesh Generation - starts in 2 weeks. 👀
This week we kick off our subnet's first competition with the new incentive design.
Winner takes all, open-source solutions, built on @TargonCompute.
Faster Iteration > Faster Innovation
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Our game won @chromaawards!
Two people (one without any game dev experience) used 404's tech to generate over 12,000 3D assets and create an immersive game in one month!
Awards like this help us showcase how AI will have such an incredible impact on the creative industries by democratizing who can create and what is possible.
We'll publish more shots of the game, how to play and where it's going - but for now, check out the official entry to learn more about the concept and creation process: devpost.com/software/seed-i6…
And view some of the 6500 other entries of the competition!
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404 has built a game!
Developed in one month by a two-person team, the project shows how tech can accelerate production while preserving a clear, cohesive artistic voice.
We submitted it to the inaugural season of the @chromaawards - a groundbreaking AI Film, Music Video, and Games competition aimed to unite creators, communities, and companies across the world.
From the 6,500 entries, our game "THE DREAM" is a TOP 11 FINALIST in the Games category!
Winners will be announced on SUN, Dec 21 AT 5PM PT during their Awards Ceremony livestream at ChromaAwards.com, please support us and the 6500 projects that were submitted!
Much more to come on this!
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When Trellis launched last year, miners used it to drive a massive step change in quality on SN17.
Trellis 2.0 just dropped yesterday - we're excited to see how miners push it further.
Early signals look strong:
- Runs on an H200, same class of compute we use on Targon, and it’s fast
- Model quality looks very promising
- More code coming shortly, including training shape conditioned texture gen
- Model and code released under MIT License
Expect to see higher quality 3D models from SN17 within weeks (if not days)...
github.com/microsoft/TRELLIS…
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Our most popular tool just got a major upgrade:
2D→3D is now live on our Unity Plugin!
Achieving high-fidelity 3D in Unity just got a whole lot easier
assetstore.unity.com/package…
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This week we kick off our subnet's first competition with the new incentive design.
Winner takes all, open-source solutions, built on @TargonCompute.
Faster Iteration > Faster Innovation
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ben james retweeted
10 Dec 2025
Another subnet stacked ontop of another subnet. This time Targon which provides sandboxed TEE guarantees and the ability to make the miners pay for sampling costs.
Pretty cool!
This week we kick off our subnet's first competition with the new incentive design.
Winner takes all, open-source solutions, built on @TargonCompute.
Faster Iteration > Faster Innovation
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crypto x ai projects to keep an eye on
almanak
talus
gensyn
fraction
sentient
theoriq
gradient
nous research
prime intellect
pluralis
templar
ridges
chutes
sportstensor
synth
numinous
allora
vanta trading
score
quantum compute
bitmind
404-gen
eigencloud
flock
giza
nevermined
sapien
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virtuals
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Prediction for 2026 — Crypto x AI Edition
> At least 5% of Defi will be managed by AI agents
> Crypto vibe-coding will become a thing — smart contract, dApps, Defi Vaults vibe-coded by agents
> Reliable trading agents will be available as trading co-pilots that help newbies trade better
> Yield farming agents will be able to help optimize more complex strategies, beyond optimizing lending markets
> Increased demand for AI agents will give rise to increased demand in security, privacy, verification, and transparency
> x402 will kickstart a wave of new crypto-native monetization model
> ERC-8004 will become the registry for AI agents reputation
> DeFAI abstraction layers will be embedded as features into popular dApps and mobile apps, optimizing experience for newcomers
> Enterprise adoption of Crypto x AI will remain slow, but privacy-preserving and compliance-ready solutions will be able to capture enterprise demand
> Crypto x AI will help propel the development of robotics through data collection, coordination, payments, identity, and funding at scale
> Inference networks will serve more demand than ever, especially domain-specific inferences (weather prediction, sports prediction, outcome prediction, and more)
> Machine learning systems will drive the productization of prediction market vaults (i.e. PM liquidity provisioning) at scale
> Prediction markets continue to be the Crypto breakout use case, offering opportunities for prediction traders, yield farmers, and builders alike
> Decentralized AI hit more adoption, driven by the trend of developers and startups opting for open-source models, cheap & efficient, distributed setups
> More talents from general AI will move to Darwinian AI platforms, accelerating the pace of AI development within those ecosystems
> New breakthroughs in reinforcement learning, resulting in at least one commercialized RL use case in 2026
> Quantum computing will be one key narrative of the year — we'll see quantum-resistant coins and quantum-related coins
> The future of domain-specific smaller models (rather than big models that can do everything) will further propel Decentralized AI value proposition in 2026
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ben james retweeted
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404 is now powered by @TargonCompute!
Partnering with other subnets helps us improve together while keeping value within the Bittensor ecosystem.
We're excited for what's ahead!
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ben james retweeted
4 Dec 2025
Subnet Stacking:
Subnet 17 is built on Subnet 4.
When subnets stack, cost savings compound.
404 is now powered by @TargonCompute!
Partnering with other subnets helps us improve together while keeping value within the Bittensor ecosystem.
We're excited for what's ahead!
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