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Today's show:
TAO, the token associated with the Bittensor network, fell sharply last night after a major project declared it was taking its business elsewhere. Covenant AI had used Bittensor subnets 3, 39, and 89 before its abrupt and controversial decision to depart for other digital shores.
Gareth Howells, a co-founder of Vidaio (Bittensor Subnet 85), joined Jason and Alex to share the community perspective regarding Covenant's decision to leave Bittensor, a choice that was especially bitter given that its recently-released Covenant-72B model trained using the network's decentralized capabilities was hailed at the time as a demonstration of the crypto-AI hybrid's potential. (Covenant's Sam Dare was a recent guest on TWiST.)
Howells walked us through Vidaio's product (AI models for high-quality video work, like upscaling)
Then it was time to bring new fan-favorite Ole Lehmann on. Ole took an Andrej Karpathy concept, and turned it into a skill that you can use in either OpenClaw or Claude Cowork.
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Timestamps:
Drama in the Bittensor space! Was there a rugpull?
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Gareth reacts to the Covenant situation… Did Sam sell tokens?
How VidAIo (subnet85) optimizes video as cheaply as possible. https://vidaio.io/
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Demo: Gareth shows upscaled footage of our very own Lon Harris
Who is actually doing the computing on Bittensor?
How Bittensor recruits tech talent from emerging markets
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Jason's explains the Bittensor network. https://docs.bittensor.com/
Jason addresses "pump and dump" allegations
Ole Lehmann joins the show https://x.com/itsolelehmann
Jason's $1,000 "bounty" for enhanced show notes
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Off Duty with Alex and J-Cal!
Reacting to the Maul trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkVepshZhGc
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