Ocean Power: Oceanic Phase Three | OAPN #8

In OAPN #8, we preview the oceanic Phase Three of the OpenAgents compute network in conversation with Ben Silone.

This episode explores what ocean-based infrastructure could mean for the future of compute, energy, and machine work. We discuss what we admire and question about Panthalassa’s floating datacenter vision, revisit the Bitcoin Magazine thesis that bitcoin can help unlock ocean energy for large populations, and look at OceanBit’s efforts to combine bitcoin mining with ocean thermal energy.

We also cover this week’s decentralized training run through Pylon v0.2, including a legal-focused Qwen fine-tune and how that fits into the OpenAgents flywheel of revenue and rev-sharing.

Along the way, we reflect on the AI labs racing to build centralized systems for governments and institutions, versus the OpenAgents effort to distribute capability outward and put more power in more hands.

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