Episodes
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...
Published 11/27/24
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...
Published 11/15/24
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...
Published 11/11/24
The premier subnet on Bittensor as of Aug 2024 is Subnet 19 Vision and its lead developer, Namoray, joins the pod for a second time to discuss how he approaches subnet development and how work on one subnet can impact the entire network. We also get into the future of Bittensor and where we see the network headed in the next 18 months. This conversation was a pleasure. Video pod episode links below.
https://x.com/KeithSingery/status/1819484406995877942
https://x.com/namoray_dev
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Published 08/03/24
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/
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Published 06/19/24
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!
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Published 06/10/24
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
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Published 05/24/24
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/
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Published 05/20/24
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
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Published 05/17/24
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/
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Published 05/14/24
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
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Published 05/13/24
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...
Published 05/08/24
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
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Published 05/06/24
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/
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Published 05/02/24
Subnet 31 Neural Architecture Search has made a splash on Bittensor by becoming the first decentralized option for a service previously only available from big players at a high cost. Enterprises can now leverage Bittensor's network to optimize size and performance of smaller machine learning models. Nima, machine learning engineer and owner of S31, walks us through the subnet, the early successes and the development roadmap.
https://twitter.com/naschain_a
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Published 04/29/24
In this 25th episode of the Bittensor Guru, I interview Subnet 22 Datura developer Giga. Datura queries a plethora of sources directly and uses it's own "smart scrape" technology to provide highly relevent responses to user queries at https://datura.ai including leveraging an LLM to provide a summary of results. We discuss their functionality, incentive mechanism and roadmap.
https://datura.ai
https://twitter.com/KeithSingery
https://taostats.io/validators/bittensor-guru-podcast/
Published 04/24/24
Subnet 24 on Bittensor is an always-on trading competition between 200+ rotating miners brought to you by the Taoshi team. Forex (currencies) for now but many more trading pairs/commodities on the way. Thomas, their lead developer, joins the Bittesnor Guru to explain how you incentivize winning trades in perpetuity on Bittensor's decentralized network. Fascinating discussion and thorough explanation of the subnet mechanism at work. Enjoy!
https://dashboard.taoshi.io
https://taoshi.io
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Published 04/14/24
In this episode we dive into the generative AI waters of Subnet 3 run by Ethan and the team at MyShell.AI where they use their own open source text-to-speech model called MeloTTS to power subnet operations. Ethan provides some great insight into what his team is building and this is a worthy listen for anyone looking to understand more about Bittensor and MyShell. Like Subnet 6 and 9, models from top performing miners from this subnet are available on HuggingFace for download. Enjoy!
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Published 04/08/24
Bittensor is home to two subnets formed by members of a team that has introduced more than 150 million users to AI through apps like WOMBO Dream and WOMBO Me. Parshant and Salman with Omega Labs are aiming to create the largest open-source multimodal dataset in existence with S24 and Ben-Zion has plans to use S30 WOMBO to incentivize virality. Great minds are joining Bittensor every week and this pod is a great example of the type of top-tier talent the ecosystem is attracting. Big brains,...
Published 04/06/24
Only one subnet could be the 21st episode of this pod and that is Philanthrope's Subnet 21 FileTAO on Bittensor. Phil does a great job of simplifying how all the gears turn on his decentralized storage masterpiece. With petabytes of capacity and hundreds of terabytes in current storage used, this is a subnet provides immediately utility and redundant security through incentivizing one of the most important in-house services of any Bittensor subnet, Storage. Enjoy!
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Published 03/31/24
Namoray is on of the premier developers on Bittensor and is the mind behind Subnet 19 Vision. This episode is a masterclass on how to run a successful subnet and design an incentive/validation mechanism to drive the highest quality output from miners on Bittensor. I am so impressed by what this team is doing as they've turned what were once identified as weaknesses in Bittensor's design into strengths. Big Brain on this fella. Check out what Subnet 19 can do with the Studio...
Published 03/28/24
This one was a fun look at Bittensor Subnet 32 It's AI with one of it's lead developers, Sergey. This subnet allows anyone to use https://its-ai.streamlit.app to test whether a block of text is written by an LLM or human. Fascinating technology and they've implemented a couple really innovative elements into their validation mechanism that we nerd out on. Can't wait for the API as it has so many immediate applications. Thanks for listening!
https://its-ai.streamlit.app
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Published 03/27/24
In this epsiode of the Bittensor Guru we interview Kamil AKA Aphex5 on Subnet 15 Blockchain Insights. Kamil brings 15 years of experience as a .NET develpoer and time spent at Kraken and trade.io to his subnet design. He and his team are creating a platform to allow anyone to have a conversation with the Bitcoin blockchain and eventually many chains across the cryptocurrency landscape. Really creative output coming from this team leveraging the power of Bittensor.
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Published 03/16/24
On this epside we interview Neural Internet's AIZorr0 and discuss Subnet 27 Compute which allows miners to put their GPUs on the cloud natively on Bittensor to earn TAO. Learn more about how to mine on Subnet 27 and their bounty program by joining Neural Internet's Discord. Link below.
Nueral Internet Discord - https://discord.gg/7tjkgSS2
https://www.neuralinternet.ai/
https://twitter.com/aizorr0
https://bittensor.com
https://bittensor.guru
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Published 03/11/24