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

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

https://tauvision.ai/

https://corcel.io

https://bittensor.guru

https://taostats.io/validators/bittensor-guru-podcast/

https://bittensor.com

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/