now the usa wins the world cup

After the last 24 hours, how can you read this and not see that decentralized training is going to be the most important innovation to come out of crypto since Bitcoin?

Unlike many investors in crypto, I did not pivot to AI in the last few years. However, since 2020, I built some of the deepest understanding in this industry on the intersection of AI and decentralized networks (crypto, web3). From the start, it was very clear that AI models are a centralizing force and the biggest target for government control. That point became market fact last night, with @AnthropicAI’s export control compliance. As an investor in decentralized AI, I know that d-networks are a counterbalance to this state of affairs. In particular, the starting point of sovereign, open, public, decentralized AI is the seemingly insurmountable compute problem. How are people supposed to source more industrial compute for frontier training than these huge trillion dollar companies? The answer is simple: there is enough commodity GPU compute in the world to compete on the frontier, but to make use of it we need new algorithms for training. That’s what a few companies like @gensynai @PrimeIntellect @bageldotcom @Pluralis @NousResearch @MacrocosmosAI @covenant_ai set out to research, while everyone on the planet told them it was impossible. The result is that it is not only possible, but it can be cheaper and nearly as efficient as the alternative process. The second major problem is economic sustainability. Open source models are great, however, they are not economically viable as they don’t have a business model. So far in decentralized AI, only @Pluralis has an answer — by breaking up the weights of the model among participants, we create a business model for tokenized AI models. This is the moment of truth — will AI become fully centralized and fall under censorship and unilateral government control? Or will the AI world realize the importance of public AI on open decentralized networks?

1. if transacting with superintelligent models outside of the boundaries of a lab becomes difficult due to national security / ai safety concerns and so on, it will mean the Coasean boundaries of the labs will grow to encompass all interesting industry, creating a truly cyberpunk chaebol-capitalism type of future, where the goverment sort of runs them but they also sort of run the government 2. as if there weren't already enough reasons to break up your family, leave your home, the Zone of Thought will increase the attractiveness of migrating to try and have your child on american soil, so they can have 1000x the effective brain power of people born elsewhere 3. every country should probably try and either work towards a new ai security pact with the americans immediately or pool every ounce of national resources to try and create their own ASI labs lest you become complete intellectual, economic, and moral vassals to the united states of america and the output byproducts its ASIs (you wont even get to talk to them). if they succeeded (big if) this will imply a more global race and more risk factors than was previously implied by the formerly only "beating china" narrative -- but many will prefer it to the superintelligent monopolar value lock-in 4. the other alternative is to keep the tension between safety and concentration of power at the top of mind and for the government/labs to push for solving it, rather than instrumentalizing all other values to be subservient to minimizing ai harms. insofar as safety means defending properties of the fragile world we like, the diffuse nature of power is one of those properties 5. historically the americans have been really quite Benign about their global public goods hegemony despite the ability to extract significantly more rents than they do, and it makes it easy for people of all stripes to fight for america rather than under it. we probably don't have to, but i hope america overall works towards export promotion of american models rather than export control

As far as first attempts go, I’m not mad about it.

Who tf are you?

International World Cup fans after consuming high fructose corn syrup & red 40 for the first time

Banker: “Would you like to apply for the American Express platinum card?” “No way” -Jose

Waiting to get off that new Siri waitlist

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving. Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free. I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these." "They just come with the table, man." They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner. This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat. I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared. "Did we…?" "Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless." Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined. My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude." Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man. I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy. Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived. I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most. Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

Not gonna lie, Atlanta city is stunning. It hits different 🔥

Access to intelligence should not depend on a handful of companies or governments. This is why open, decentralized, permissionless AI matters. This is why Bittensor matters.

My mayor Muslim My bagel’s Jewish The US government took away my AI Knicks in five

Reading old threads with Fable 5

the US govt shut down access to claude's new model as a national security concern that is insane

State of Local AI #1 ——— In lieu of Fable ban. Here’s the best LLMs of the week to run on your hardware. —— 4-8gb vram/ram 500$ - Gemma-4-qat huggingface.co/unsloth/gemma… I had someone mention it’s very good for subagent stuff —— 8-16gb vram/ram < 1k usd - Gemma-12B huggingface.co/google/gemma-… without a doubt the smartest model of its size —— 16-32gb Apple/Strix halo 1-2k usd - Diffusion Gemma26B huggingface.co/google/diffus… - on 1x 6000 it’s eating up to 600 tok/s - smallest smart MoE we have - lots of world knowledge - easy to run —— 32-96gb ram/vram (2-10k usd) - nex-n2-mini huggingface.co/nex-agi/Nex-N… builds on qwen3.6-35B and seems to do really well - qwopus-27B huggingface.co/Jackrong/Qwop… this model topped a lot of our benchmarks at local.ai —— 384gb vram (10-50K usd) - huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/Min… 23B means it’s close to qwen3.6-27B per token, while also have a lot of specialisation. - fast inference - top open weight model on AA —— 768gb-1TB - huggingface.co/moonshotai/Ki… Kimi has always been a top player here and their last model cuts speed and cost down by 30% - great vision support - first coder model by moonshot ——— Top models: 1. Qwen3.6-35B 2. Qwen3.6-27B 3. Step-3.7-Flash 4. Minimax-M3 5. Deepseek-v4-flash ——— Budget sweet spots: #1 - 1K usd Single 3090 / Mac mini / Intel arc b70 / AMD - Qwen / Gemma #2 - 5k usd DGX Spark / Mac m5 max / 4x 3090 - qwen / Gemma step and deepseek flash #3 - 12k usd RTX Pro 6000 / Mac Ultra / 2x Spark / 8x 3090 Ds4-flash / step-3.7-Flash and above #4 - 24k usd 2x 6000 / 2x Mac Ultra / 4x Spark / Mix Same as above #5 - 50k usd 4x 6000 / 4x Max Ultra / 12x Spark / 2 H100 Minimax-m3 / nex-n2-pro / step-3.7-flash #6 - 100k usd GB300 station / 8x 6000 / 4x H200 / Mix GLM-5.2 / Kimi-K2.7 ——— Let’s keep the Internet free thanks for reading

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…

OpenAI better stop with the talk about AI being dangerous or their models will be restricted too. There’s a reason I started hoarding VRAM like a chipmunk hoards their squirrels.