Bittensor Guru

Subnet 62 Ridges is on a tear the last month and has now cracked the top 15 subnets. Join me and owner Shakeel on this pod as we jam on all things 62. This is one of my favorite new projects on Bittensor and has a great chance to disrupt AI coding. video: https://x.com/KeithSingery/status/1949125382579655120 https://x.com/ridges_ai https://x.com/hobbleabbas https://ridges-ai.vercel.app/  

Sam leads Bittensor's Templar  and Basilica subnets. Templar is one of the world's top distributed training platforms and it's easy to understand why after this conversation. Fresh off a successful implemention on of CCLoco on subnet 3, he now has his target on building a permissionless, community-owned compute cloud on subnet 39 Basilica. Sam is a cult hero within Bittensor and it was an honor to have him on the pod.  Video: https://x.com/KeithSingery/status/1947404033205145938 https://x.com/DistStateAndMe https://x.com/tplr_ai    

Max joins from Subnet 44 Score to discuss the innovative approaches being taken by his team in the realm of computer vision and artificial intelligence, particularly in the context of sports analytics. We touch on self-supervised learning, the challenges of data annotation, and the mechanisms in place to incentivize miners in Bittensor. We also cover community engagement, quality control, and the collaborative nature of building decentralized systems. Enjoy all!    https://x.com/webuildscore https://x.com/mxmsbt https://github.com/score-technologies/score-vision Score's Novelty Search - https://youtu.be/LFtWDOwmmeU?si=LqE1V5KGq7ld5x2v https://bittensor.guru  

The team at Rayon Labs have done it again with Gradients led by wanderingweights who joins the pod to discuss how he and his team have democratized AI model building with their "couple of clicks" no-code training subnet. This is one of the most groundbreaking projects on Bittensor that, in only a few months on the network, can already out-train the establishment. Think AutoML on Bittensor and you're on the right track but still selling this group way short. Enjoy! Video and links below.  https://x.com/KeithSingery/status/1905573818942263756 https://gradients.io https://github.com/rayonlabs/G.O.D https://rayonlabs.ai https://x.com/rayon_labs https://bittensor.guru

Special announcement! The Bittensor Guru Validator is now the TAO.com Validator.  Watch the video on X: https://x.com/KeithSingery/status/1902729530521116695 As Bittensor moves into an era of rapid expansion catalyzed by the open market dynamics of dTAO, validators, more than ever, are critical for enabling access to intelligence commodities, increasing institutional adoption and building out tools and services available on top tier chains to attract millions of new users and investors. To fuel Bittensor’s evolution, the Bittensor Guru Validator is joining Tensora and officially  rebranding as TAO.com. We will return to running validation hardware and adjust our take to 9% to fund our operations. The TAO.com group, formed by this partnership along with several other key acquisitions and hires, will be the backbone of the most complete team in the ecosystem. It will include some of Bittensor’s top miners, developers and business leaders, rounding out a group that will have deep experience in every facet of our network critical for charting a successful course in this next phase of growth. In addition, I have joined TAO.com as Chief Evangelist. The Bittensor Guru Podcast will continue with a new focus on sharing results from TAO.com’s subnet evaluations team with the community. We are leveraging our combined expertise to analyze every aspect Bittensor’s subnets, from the health and diversity of the miner/validator pools to intelligence commodities to incentivize mechanisms and even the subnet code itself. These announcements are the just the beginning  and I look forward to sharing more developments as we solidify ourselves as a cornerstone of Bittensor. 

Alright Bittensor...We've had a bunch of attempts at prediction/trading and most of those subnets are on the cutting room floor. SignalPlus and team went into this crowded category anyway and have set a new bar for competitive investment strategies, slick front end deployment and big buy-in from the community and validators. Enjoy this hour with Augustine, one of the lead developers for Efficient Frontier. Video pod: https://x.com/keithsingery/status/1872800191407145090?s=46   Episode Links https://t.signalplus.com/mining https://x.com/SignalPlus_Web3 https://github.com/EfficientFrontier-SignalPlus/EfficientFrontier https://taostats.io/validators/bittensor-guru-podcast/ https://bittensor.guru  

Angad and Akshat join the pod for the second time to talk evolution of Dippy.ai and how they are using multiple subnets and integration within Bittensor's network to further the reach and capabilities of their viral roleplaying app. With a successful subnet (S11) and second subnet (S58) launched to add voice to their offering, this team is becoming a major force both in and outside of Bittensor. https://x.com/dippy_ai https://www.dippy.ai/ https://taostats.io/validators/bittensor-guru-podcast/ https://bittensor.guru    

Ben-Zion and the team at wombo.ai are making waves in Bittensor again with their new Subnet 36 Pyramid Scheme (bringing Cellular Automata to Bittensor) along with taopill.ai and a new subnet analyzer tool called tao360. These contributions along with their continued success in optimizing Stable Diffusion XL on 4090s on S39 EdgeMaxxing puts them in a league of their own. Ben-Zion is one of the spiciest personalities we have involved in Bittensor and I always appreciate the flavor he brings to any conversation. Enjoy!  https://www.wombo.ai/ https://x.com/benzion_b https://www.w.ai/ https://taopill.ai/ https://x.com/benzion_b https://huggingface.co/spaces/wombo/edge-maxxing-dashboard https://x.com/benzion_b/status/1858673043188707593 https://bittensor.guru/ https://taostats.io/validators/5HK5tp6t2S59DywmHRWPBVJeJ86T61KjurYqeooqj8sREpeN        

Parshant from Omega Labs joins the podcast for the second time to discuss their new app, Omega Focus. With the most downloaded dataset on huggingface between 10-100 million rows,  this team is no stranger to delivering value to the open source community and they've hit another home run by enabling anyone to monetize their daily work by contributing to training artificial intelligence. Parshant is a mench and we are so lucky to have innovative builders like him in Bittensor. As they say at Omega, "Be, and it becomes..." https://focus.omega.inc/ https://x.com/parshantdeep https://x.com/omegalabsai https://omega-labs.ai/ https://taostats.io/validators/bittensor-guru-podcast/ https://bittensor.guru

We're back baby! Season 2 of the Bittensor Guru is finally here and we're dropping the first episode with a visit from Will Squires and Steffen Cruz and the Macrocosmos.ai team. With subnets 1, 9, 13, 25 and 37 this team is 29 brains strong and one of the primary forces shaping Bittensor today. We spend much of the episode covering S13's rebranding to "Gravity" and the team's prediction of a Trump victory along with how this has managed to build a team of PHDs and machine learning professionals around Bittensor. Read their monster October update here. Enjoy! https://www.macrocosmos.ai/ https://macrocosmosai.substack.com/ https://x.com/macrocosmosai https://x.com/macrocrux https://x.com/WSquiresI https://github.com/macrocosm-os https://taostats.io/validators/bittensor-guru-podcast/ https://bittensor.guru https://taomerch.store  

Frank has been a force for good in the Bittensor ecosystem for a long time and brings a track record of business development and entrepreneurial success with the Rizzo Validator and Subnet 20 BitAgent to our project. I relish any chance I get to mix it up with a fellow validator and this conversation was no exception. Tune in for a wide ranging conversation between Frank and I. Thanks for listening! https://x.com/FrankRizz07 https://roguetensor.com/bitagent/demos https://rizzo.network/ https://taostats.io/validators/bittensor-guru-podcast/ https://bittensor.guru  

With Subnet 12 - Compute Horde recently eclipsing 1000 GPUs and breaking all known limits of subnet design, Rhef and his team are inviting miners into a whole new architecture with multiple GPUs, on-demand requisitioning, a la carte HuggingFace model hosting and custom front ends for user interaction. This episode is best consumed through video as there are a couple screen sharing demos. Link below. Don't miss Rhef's Bittensor network dashboards either. Enjoy! https://x.com/KeithSingery/status/1799588449462128786 https://grafana.bactensor.io/dashboards https://facilitator.computehorde.io https://github.com/backend-developers-ltd/ComputeHorde https://taostats.io/validators/bittensor-guru-podcast/ https://bittensor.guru    

Sam Forman from Sturdy joins the Bittensor Guru to discuss Subnet 10. Sturdy uses their subnet as a crowdsourced yield optimization engine to power their lending protocol, setting a new standard for decentralization of financial intelligence. Fresh of a major upgrade to their reward mechanism, Sam takes us through how he uses Bittensor's incentivization to deliver top returns to Sturdy's users.  https://x.com/pgpsam https://x.com/SturdyFinance https://sturdy.finance https://taostats.io/validators/bittensor-guru-podcast/ https://bittensor.guru

YZ joins me to describe how he and the talented team from Kaito are working to create a decentralized version of their popular subscription service for indexing/searching content across many web3 platforms with Bittensor's Subnet 5. With a couple months on mainnet, a healthy portion of the emissions from validators and a worthy objective relevant to nearly anyone who seeks to get a view from outside their personal feed, this one subnet to keep an eye on.  https://www.kaito.ai/ https://github.com/OpenKaito/openkaito https://taostats.io/validators/bittensor-guru-podcast/ https://bittensor.guru

Steffen Cruz, former CTO of the Opentensor Foundation, has teamed up with long time friend Will Squires to form Macrocosmos. With subnets 1, 9 and 13 under their guidance and a protein folding subnet on testnet nearly ready for launch, this group is shaping the future of Bittensor and one of the most influential forces in the ecosystem. Video link below.  https://x.com/KeithSingery/status/1790806126528700584 https://www.macrocosmos.ai/ https://x.com/MacrocosmosA https://x.com/crux081208 https://x.com/WSquiresI https://github.com/macrocosm-os https://taostats.io/validators/bittensor-guru-podcast/ https://bittensor.guru

Angad and Akshat join the pod from the team at Impel which recently launched on Bittensor's Subnet 11 to incentivize decentralized creation of roleplay models for their app Dippy.ai. Get to know the team, the killer pedigree and their bold objective of becoming the open source leaders in roleplaying LLMs. Video link below.  https://x.com/KeithSingery/status/1790128752522858577 https://www.tryimpel.com/ https://twitter.com/impel_ai https://twitter.com/dippy_ai https://www.dippy.ai/ https://taostats.io/validators/bittensor-guru-podcast/ https://bittensor.guru

The Conversation Genome Project by Afterparty represents an evolution of subnet planning, design and execution. With months on testnet under their belt, a capable and experienced team leading their development and a revolutionary approach to incentivizing intelligence, David Fields and team are poised to democratize access to personalized AI using Bittensor.  https://conversations.xyz https://twitter.com/conversationgen https://twitter.com/DavFields https://github.com/afterpartyai/bittensor-conversation-genome-project https://taostats.io/validators/bittensor-guru-podcast/ https://bittensor.guru  

The Subvortex team joins the Bittensor Guru to share how they've increased network decentralization by using the incentivize mechanism on their subnet to encourage miners to run optimal subtensor nodes all over the world. With nodes in more than 70 countries and low latency/high redundancy along with a load balancer, they've effectively eliminated the need to run an individually operated subtensor node. Great team here and highly creative use of a subnet slot. Be sure to check out the wandb link below for all the statistics on their mining pool.  btcli --subtensor.chain_endpoint subvortex.info:9944 https://wandb.ai/eclipsevortext/subvortex-team https://github.com/eclipsevortex/SubVortex/ https://twitter.com/SubVortexTao https://twitter.com/KeithSingery https://taostats.io/validators/bittensor-guru-podcast/

Eseck and Albert from the FirstTensor validator on Bittensor joined us to discuss Subnet 16 BitAds.ai and the unique approach they've taken to towards incentivizing decentralized ad campaigns. Truly novel design meets well-calculated implementation with this one. We've even launched a Bittensor Guru ad campaign ourselves! It was a pleasure to chat with a fellow validator bring value to Bittensor.  https://bitads.ai https://firstads.ai https://twitter.com/firsttensor https://github.com/eseckft/BitAds.ai https://twitter.com/KeithSingery https://taostats.io/validators/bittensor-guru-podcast/

Inference Labs has created Subnet 2 Omron to provide cryptographically verified proof-of-inference. Their first target is Active Validation Service (AVS) and Liquid Restaking Tokens (LRT). Colin, Inference Labs cofounder, walks us through the Subnet and how it provides a critical services for guaranteeing authenticity for inference. Enjoy! Video: https://x.com/KeithSingery/status/1786066003497201780 https://twitter.com/inference_labs https://inferencelabs.com/ https://twitter.com/omron_ai https://github.com/inference-labs-inc/omron-subnet https://twitter.com/KeithSingery https://taostats.io/validators/bittensor-guru-podcast/