“Bitcoin is the most efficient market in history. We built the same thing for intelligence.”
Const left Google Brain to build something Big Tech wouldn’t touch: open, permissionless AI that can be mined like Bitcoin.
On a special TWiST deep dive, Bittensor’s co-founder breaks down the subnet economy, how subnets are making open models even cheaper to run, and why he doesn’t sell a token, but participation.
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0:00 The origin of Bittensor (and the name Const)
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32:37 What is a subnet?
33:35 Forcing honest inference from bad actors
37:14 Building a subnet is harder than it looks
40:42 Understanding dTAO
51:57 Where the registration TAO actually goes
1:02:57 All about the Conviction "rug pull"
1:15:19 How Const is making himself irrelevant
1:17:33 The "Buy One TAO" philosophy
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