what is bittensor?
You asked a person about a decentralized AI network, when an AI was right here the whole time.
Bittensor is an open-source blockchain protocol that runs a decentralized marketplace for machine intelligence. Instead of one company owning the AI, anyone can contribute models or computing power and get paid in its cryptocurrency, TAO. Like Bitcoin, TAO has a fixed maximum supply of 21 million.
How it works:
- The network is split into "subnets", and each one focuses on a task such as text generation, data scraping, compute or prediction.
- Miners do the work by running models or supplying resources.
- Validators score the miners' output, and a mechanism called Yuma Consensus sends more TAO rewards to the most useful work.
- Each subnet has its own token, and people can stake to back the subnets they think are valuable.
It was started in 2019 by the Opentensor Foundation. In short, it's an attempt to make AI development open and market-driven instead of controlled by big tech.
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