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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.
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…
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Bittensor Ecosystem Highlights :: June 8–14, 2026 SUBNET ACHIEVEMENTS [ @chutes_ai - SN64 ] @jon_durbin shared a draft of the Parallax tech report, outlining a MoE training method to reduce per-participant VRAM and FLOPs. > bit.ly/3RYSpFM Chutes also became a launch partner for Respan’s new AI Gateway. > bit.ly/4aAdpJd [ @QuasarModels - SN24 ] Quasar released Quasar-Preview, its first public Quasar model trained on Bittensor: 18B MoE, 2B active and 5M context. > bit.ly/4ekxl3U Quasar is preparing a 10T-token decentralized training run on SN24, starting with a 5T-token phase to produce a stronger checkpoint. > bit.ly/3RZb7gv [ @oroagents - SN15 ] ORO shared its arXiv pre-print, code, data and post-training pipeline for building shopping agents from SN15’s open agentic shopping traces. > bit.ly/43vW3cG [ @webuildscore - SN44 ] Score showed how its 19MB vision model beat larger AI models on object detection while running much faster on CPU. > bit.ly/4os0FtX They also added new comparison pages on @manakoai against ChatGPT, Claude, Roboflow, SAM 3 and other vision AI tools. > bit.ly/4vMuCY7 [ @vidaio_ - SN85 ] Score is partnering with Vidaio to bring vision AI challenges to SN44 and make video archives searchable and actionable. > bit.ly/4ekAbWC [ @yanez__ai - SN54 ] Yanez partnered with Nexartis, an identity and trust infrastructure company, to help verify human, AI model and agent activity across digital transactions. > bit.ly/4eshDUp They also shared in their latest AMA that Yanez has generated $300K in 2026 sales, with an active pipeline over $1M and 11 clients. > bit.ly/4v9VUYq [ @trishoolai - SN23 ] Trishool was accepted into Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network. > bit.ly/4uUf5EZ [ @affine_io - SN120 ] AFFINE-XXIX beat the Qwen3-32B baseline on SWE-Rebench, SWE-Multi, HumanEval and MCP-Agent benchmarks, while staying close on BBH. > bit.ly/4xrRA8D [ @VantaTrading - SN8 ] Vanta Trading crossed 2000 users after launching free $1k eval accounts and cutting prices by 55% across all challenges. > bit.ly/3QGKOv5 [ @SwarmSubnet - SN124 ] Swarm announced SOTApilot, an open-source AI drone autonomy model with 95.34% success on its UAV navigation benchmark. > bit.ly/4opsiUi [ @blockmachine_io - SN19 ] Blockmachine launched Ethereum RPC. > bit.ly/4fGe67h [ @TrajectoryRL - SN11 ] TrajectoryRL is expanding SN11’s skill competition from skill packs to miner-submitted finetuned models. > bit.ly/4eoTA91 [ @heydittoai - SN118 ] Ditto reached 1000 users. > bit.ly/4gkB7Na [ @theminos_ai - SN107 ] Minos has run over 37,000 variant-calling evaluations on chromosome 21, with submissions improving by 10.21% on average. > bit.ly/4vO9noW [ @minotaursubnet - SN112 ] Minotaur launched its website and opened beta access to its DEX Aggregator. > bit.ly/447GpEq [ @ReadyAI_ - SN33 ] ReadyAI launched a revenue dashboard showing real-time demand for SN33’s structured data pipeline. > bit.ly/4epth2q [ @say_gm_ - SN28 ] Good Morning published the roadmap for its AI gateway running in a TEE, now live on testnet with mainnet beta next. > bit.ly/4gkzGOQ [ @EndureNet - SN30 ] Endure is integrating @SynthdataCo's forecasts into its DeFi risk engines. > bit.ly/4v5Remt [ @eirel_ai - SN36 ] Eirel released its first product, offering deep research, image generation, web search and agent tools across multiple model families. > bit.ly/4otVg5I [ @adtao_ppcrebel - SN21 ] @dsvfund took an OTC position in the SN21 alpha token. > bit.ly/4eHTs5G SUBNET LAUNCH [ @DeSciClaims - SN111 ] Claims is launching as SN111 to build a claim-evidence graph that turns scientific literature into machine-readable data for AI reasoning. > bit.ly/3SlCUaT PODCASTS & ARTICLES @opentensor Novelty Search hosted by @const_reborn with @zipcodenetwork > bit.ly/3SmDlli @TAO_dot_com Episode 14 with @Carrot_____1 and @KeithSingery > bit.ly/3QCA9S6 @gordonfrayne podcast with @josercaldera from Yanez > bit.ly/4vOufwf @gordonfrayne podcast with @knakamor from Vocence > bit.ly/4493MgY @AltcoinMillie podcast with @MaxScore from Score > bit.ly/3QGDX4L @AltcoinMillie podcast with @zeussubnet > bit.ly/4uBcNKu @TAO_dot_com article “The Impact of Conviction” > bit.ly/4esgBI1
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Decentralized AI isn't just philosophically better, it's functionally necessary for science to move at the speed required. Anthropic already made Claude structurally useless for serious biotech work before any government pressure. When they launched Claude Opus 4, they activated ASL-3 — their internal Responsible Scaling Policy's highest deployed tier. The trigger? Internal testing showed the model could assist someone with a basic STEM background in synthesizing dangerous pathogens. Their chief scientist called it explicitly: COVID-like agents, pandemic-level risk. Their response was to apply broad biological research restrictions across the board. The problem is that the same guardrails that block novice bioterrorists also block legitimate computational drug discovery, protein engineering, nanobody design, and molecular pathway analysis. You can't surgically remove "dangerous biology" from "useful biology" at the model level — the underlying science is the same. So they blunted the whole thing. This is what centralized AI control looks like in practice. One company's risk tolerance — shaped by liability, regulatory pressure, and investor optics — becomes the ceiling for what an entire scientific field can access. Open source isn't just an ideological position — it's infrastructure for the next era of drug discovery.
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.
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The 29th era of Affine Champion now. While champions iterate fast, benchmark performance keeps raising the bar AFFINE-XXIX vs. Qwen3-32B baseline: • SWE-REBENCH 10.5 • SWE-MULTI 9.0 • HUMANEVAL 8.5 • MCP-AGENT 1.7 • BBH within tolerance
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“The bank of Bittensor” That’s how @zipcodenetwork framed the long-term vision for SN46 on the latest Novelty Search. Zipcode started with real estate appraisals. The bigger vision is on-chain credit, real-world assets, and a new financial layer on Bittensor. Hosted by @const_reborn Full episode in the first comment
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Watch the full Novelty Search E076 on Youtube @zipcodenetwork @sebyrubino >> youtu.be/PsvjBiln5oU
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That is what we are building, and the miners on our subnet are the engine. The incentive mechanism turned an open, adversarial competition into a model that beats the giants at its job. Point the same mechanism at the next task and it does it again.
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The miners did this. We benchmarked Score 'Skills' against foundation models and frontier chat VLMs under the fairest protocol we could design. Result → alone on the accuracy-latency Pareto frontier, near real time on a laptop-class CPU, while frontier models need a datacentre to do worse. The incentive mechanism works. The frontier moves on Bittensor $TAO.
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"@webuildscore is just marketing" n=280 frames, 95% cluster-bootstrap CIs, ignore regions masked, p95 latency on a 4-thread i5, no gpu we even scored the VLMs on F1 instead of mAP to give them their best shot handicapped ourselves to be fair. still alone in the top-left. highest accuracy, near real time, on cpu the pareto frontier doesn't lie
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Jun 11
We've talked a lot about how our efforts to train AI to shop will be entirely open source. Through Bittensor, we're committed to that ethos. We're excited to share our pre-print on arXiv, our code, our data and our entire post-training pipeline. Huge shoutout and thanks to @JarrodBarnes in helping us leverage this very valuable data. This is how AI is going to learn to shop.
Jun 1
We’re excited to announce the next stage of our subnet: an automated post-training pipeline that will enable us to build the best product for AI shopping. It’s only been 50 days, but we’re now getting 20k high-quality trajectories per day that are rich training signals for online shopping tasks. Using the trajectories we have thus far, we saw an 18% → 42% climb on Qwen3-4B base using our post-training pipeline.
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Here's a draft of the tech report on the model training method I've been experimenting with, "Parallax". chutes.ai/parallax.pdf TL;DR: MoE models' params are mostly routed experts, and you can massively reduce VRAM and FLOPS per participant by splitting up those experts. You can also offload the expert training to commodity hardware further saving compute/VRAM per island. The crazy cool thing about these sketches is, you can actually onboard workers nearly instantly (sync time with ternary weights is a few MB), and they never need to download or stream the raw datasets (sketches contain all the work they need to do and are tiny). You'd probably want the first couple layers of the model in your own infra if you had sensitive data because otherwise you could do gradient inversion attacks to reconstitute the raw text, but beyond the first couple layers and not knowing which layer/expert you're training I think it's infeasible so privacy is pretty baked in. Decoupled DiLoCo/RDA-diloco style backbone sync, surrogates for non-owned routed experts with low rank updates to sync those, tiered sync cadences for various components, "sketches" to offload expert work, etc. 20b tested two different ways, plenty of small model iterations, and 176b params just to prove out feasibility. There are hundreds of additional experiments and loads of data we could also highlight as well, but the guts are there. Variations: - freeze routed expert weights instead of using surrogates, eliminates adam state, backward pass, etc., though you'd need different sync methods vs. low rank updates to the surrogates (the surrogates are already tiny, rank-8 updates to those even smaller) - hierarchical parallax, i.e. each node itself becomes an rda diloco style multi-learner which then syncs with the outer/global islands (the point here is to enable GPUs without NVLink/etc. and reduce GPU<=>GPU comms to maximize MFU on less-capable/commodity GPUs) - pipeline parallelize each island itself such that each island can decompose the backbone etc.
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This is why we're building Exploit. Because the future of AI is being decided right now. Not by you. Not by us. By three companies with closed doors. Bittensor was built to change that. Exploit is where we choose how 👇
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Today we’re releasing Quasar-Preview! Our first public proof that the Quasar architecture works at real scale. [ 18B MoE - 2B active / 5M context ] Built with Loop Transformer Quasar attention Trained on Bittensor through decentralized infrastructure 👇
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This week, @const_reborn speaks with @sebyrubino #SN46 @zipcodenetwork building accurate property appraisal models on Bittensor. SN46 Miners submit models ~30 days before evaluation; evaluation uses properties listed and sold within the last 30 days - ensuring models are tested on data they couldn't have seen Novelty Search E076 >> Live via Bittensor Discord
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NOVA Conviction Update Incentive Alignment We didn't choose drug discovery because it was an easy or fast problem to solve. We chose it because it's one of the hardest and most meaningful problems AI can tackle. Our ambition and track record reflects our commitment to long-term value creation. Since launching, NOVA has shipped 3 incentive mechanisms, established 3 relevant partnerships with other biotech companies outside of the Bittensor ecosystem, provided open-source access to optimized and fine-tuned SOTA models, run ongoing screening campaigns across multiple therapeutic modalities, and much more. That work has been funded by token sales and it will continue on multi-year timelines regardless of short-term price action. As the conviction mechanism rolls out across Bittensor, we want to be transparent about how we're approaching it by locking company tokens and aligning founder incentives with subnet growth. Company Wallet — 50% Locked Even before conviction, we've always balanced self-financing with token health. We locked 50% of our company tokens formalizing that commitment (and we’re one of the top subnets in % and TAO equivalent). From here, the owner's cut will be automatically locked so our conviction will only grow over time. The liquid 50% funds operations through token sales and OTC, and gives us flexibility to navigate price volatility. We will continue to minimize price impact and optimize for token health. Founder Incentive Alignment We're allocating 20% of what we earn split across the four founders as a direct incentive. Each founder has real skin in the game, individually motivated to grow NOVA. Based on the current wallet distribution, each founder's individual position will remain below the top 10 holders after tax. This distribution naturally decentralizes stake across the team. Our upside is tied directly to yours. Built for the Long Term We came to Bittensor to build infrastructure that accelerates drug discovery. The problems we're solving have the potential to reshape how medicine is made with multi-year timelines and billions in implications. Long term thinking is baked into everything we do. Long-term thinking is baked into everything we do. We remain focused on: • building valuable discovery systems • advancing therapeutic development • expanding partnerships • improving incentive mechanisms • and creating lasting value for the network Thank you to everyone helping us build. This is only the beginning.
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Cloudflare reported that agent traffic surpassed human traffic for the first time. That's exactly why we're making Cacheon docs agent-ready. Every page now has a clean markdown source, an LLM-friendly text endpoint, and one-click handoff to ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and more.
Cacheon docs are now agent-ready. On every doc page: • Open in Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT • or Copy Markdown For grounding: • cacheon.ai/llms-full.txt • Per-page markdown URLs As more development workflows move from browsers to agents, documentation needs to be optimized for both humans and machines.
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This is the current state of Bittensor-based, end-user-facing products on Apple Silicon: Right now, @IOTA_SN9 and @actualinc are the only working examples. @IOTA_SN9: Train LLMs and help @MacrocosmosAI turn years of research around decentralized training into a real business, while earning competitive incentives. @actualinc: Run local models and cluster any kind of compute. It is Architecture-agnostic and you can pool inference speed and VRAM across any kind of compute and say goodbye to API credits and subscriptions by gettingyour work done locally. You can hire other people’s clusters or enable mining and get your own cluster hired.
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Proof of Talk: done ✓ Bittensor showed up loud. Now comes Exploit - our conference. Our room. Our rules. 1,000 builders and breakers in Montréal. Sept 28–29. Phase 1 tickets close in a month! Don't sleep on it 👇
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bittensor:native is the printing press of intelligence. 21 million tokens mined with useful ai work. the world will tap into Bittensor’s decentralized compute & intelligence like a faucet intelligence will be commoditized the way information was after gutenberg this is one of the greatest asymmetric opportunities of all time
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My agents now have a shared brain that I can optimize??? Yea… that’ll do it.
We've been obsessed with memory since day one. Memory is the crux of high performance inference because your agents are only as good as what they remember. The issue with memory is that it must be meticulously organized. This is why we created Atlas…
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Bittensor Ecosystem Highlights of the Week #64 // SUBNET UPDATES & ACHIEVEMENTS ➤ @MacrocosmosAI SN9 They launched the first stage of Project Orion and unveiled their early pretraining run of Orion 100B, which reaches over 65% of data center training efficiency. (bit.ly/3RNR04M) @const_reborn successfully orchestrated a decentralized training run in 5 minutes for 5 TAO on @IOTA_SN9. (bit.ly/4fuTleC) ➤ @TargonCompute SN4 They announced Targon Tower Pro, which allows anyone to buy high performance computing hardware. (bit.ly/4e6zDDM) ➤ @webuildscore SN44 They announced that TaoWeave invested in @manakoai and partnered with them on North American commercialization. (x.com/webuildscore/status/20…) ➤ @LeadpoetAI SN71 They shared that Leadpoet has begun paid pilots with a large publicly listed enterprise software company and an AI compute infrastructure platform. (x.com/LeadpoetAI/status/2062…) ➤ @zipcodenetwork SN46 Their new website is now live. (x.com/zipcodenetwork/status/…) ➤ @chutes_ai SN64 The Chutes platform currently earns around $280K for every trillion tokens that move through it. (x.com/chutes_ai/status/20614…) Chutes is now a provider on @AntSeedAI. (x.com/chutes_ai/status/20628…) ➤ @chutes_ai SN64 x @desearch_ai SN22 Chutes Search is now powered by Desearch AI. (x.com/chutes_ai/status/20621…) ➤ @QuasarModels SN24 SN3 is now training Quasar models, starting with a 10B model built on the new Quasar architecture. (x.com/QuasarModels/status/20…) ➤ @b1m_ai SN105 They showed they could transfer 10 GB from R2 to Internet to R2 in 21 seconds on a distributed network. (x.com/b1m_ai/status/20623295…) ➤ @oroagents SN15 They announced the next stage of their subnet: an automated post training pipeline that should help them build the best product for AI shopping. (x.com/oroagents/status/20614…) ➤ @green_compute_ SN110 In their first month on Bittensor, they generated over £82,000, so they are doing $8,200 in token buybacks. (x.com/green_compute_/status/…) ➤ @qBitTensorLabs SN63 Just 14 hours after launch, their miners were able to produce a generalized solution for breaking RSA 340. (x.com/qBitTensorLabs/status/…) ➤ @inference_labs SN2 They shared Sertn’s Model Art, which helps visualize what needs to be done to improve a model. (x.com/inference_labs/status/…) ➤ @trishoolai SN23 They announced that they have been accepted into the Google for Startups Web3 Program. (x.com/trishoolai/status/2062…) ➤ @vocence_bt SN78 They shipped new features, including a Noise Remover. (x.com/vocence_bt/status/2062…) ➤ @almanac_market SN41 They shared an update about where they’re headed, and said they will soon introduce a second incentive mechanism within their subnet. (x.com/almanac_market/status/…) // NEW SUBNET ➤ @EndureNet SN30 Endure is a new “decentralized risk intelligence network” on Bittensor. (x.com/EndureNet/status/20614…) // BITTENSOR ECOSYSTEM ➤ @proofoftalk This week, Proof of Talk took place in Paris, with a full section of the event dedicated to Bittensor and its subnets. (x.com/taomedia_/status/20622…) ➤ @TAO_dot_com The Tao(.)com wallet is now available on Android. (x.com/TAO_dot_com/status/206…) ➤ @mentatminds They released their new Sum of Mining Subnets (SoMS) index, composed of productive mining subnets that don’t burn 100% of their emissions. (x.com/mentatminds/status/206…) ➤ @taostats You can now check out the full table of which subnets have conviction on Taostats. (x.com/taostats/status/206149…) // PODCASTS & ARTICLES ➤ @TAO_dot_com Episode 13 with @Carrot_____1 and @KeithSingery (x.com/TAO_dot_com/status/206…) ➤ @MacrocosmosAI interview with their AI Research Lead, Dr. Alan Aboudib. (x.com/MacrocosmosAI/status/2…) $TAO
Our AI Research Lead, Dr. Alan Aboudib, has been instrumental in building @IOTA_SN9 and launching Orion-100B, the largest distributed LLM pretraining run conducted over the open internet across globally distributed infrastructure. We spoke with Alan about his background, education, experiences, and perspectives on AI. Alan was a lead architect behind ResBM, our SOTA compression technique designed specifically for IOTA. He has pushed our work to the frontier of distributed AI development, helping us achieve feats that were only imaginable several years ago.
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