RoundTable21

Huge thanks to @StakingRewards for inviting RT21’s @Ithiel out to #Bangkok to talk about #Bittensor and our $TAO Bunker #Validator

@vortexics82 Thank you, my friend. I cannot count the number of lives saved with the work you’ve been doing over the years. Our team is humbled and blessed to play even a small part in what you’re doing.

Its been tough months here with too much going on, bombs, healthcare system, economic situation, but in the middle of all we are blessed in many ways. Thanks to all my brother at @21RoundTable for their continuous support to all the food shelter and all the logistics do help here

We'll just leave this here...

We’re passionate about growing the #AI x Crypto space, and recently, we were invited to help support something new and exciting 🔥 Our #ValidatorBunker is now live on @konnex_world testnet. $KNX is focusing on AI for physical work: drones, robotics, and hardware automation 🦾

"The era of isolated machines is over." Meet our CEO, @JOllwerther . Business leader with 15+ years in robotics, drone-tech, and media. Jon led commercial teams at Measure (Drone as a Service) and Aerobo/Vermeer. Now, he’s creating TCP/IP for Motion. Get ready to experience Konnex.

I agree with @FrankRizz07 here. If we as an ecosystem strive to hold ourselves to a higher standard than traditional models of centralized government, we should not push through multiple critical changes in "Omnibus packages" without the ability for nuanced discussion. There are many pieces to this proposal that make sense. - Giving 25% of lock cost to owners as dTAO is useful - Adding initial liquidity to the pool is useful But auto CHK to subnet owner keys is destructive, misaligned and could potentially incentivize corruption. With the amount of CHK validators on the network, this will de facto lead to centralized validation, closed source subnets and increases the risk that alpha tokens could be deem securities. Subnet owners will become the permanent single validator on new subnets - controlling consensus, undermining the required “checks and balances”, and incentivizing self dealing (putting their thumb on the scale for miner scoring) We at @generaltensor will vote NO to this proposal solely because we believe there are nuanced conversations to be had about each proposal, and they should not be pushed through in an Omnibus package. #Bittensor $TAO

We rise by lifting others 💙 Thanks to God for Amanda's health and to my brothers at @21RoundTable for their continuous support to children fighting cancer, with recent med donations we keep helping them fight together this awful disease. God is Good. All the time 💙

On the @theallinpod this week, @chamath asked @nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about decentralized AI training, calling our Covenant-72B run "a pretty crazy technical accomplishment." One correction: it's 72 billion parameters, not four. Trained permissionlessly across 70+ contributors on commodity internet. The largest model ever pre-trained on fully decentralized infrastructure. Jensen's answer is worth hearing too.

@aakashgupta A quarter million is still a lot cheaper than $500mil - regardless of whether you're buying or renting it. Either way, it's a big step forward.

A quarter million dollars in GPUs is the entry ticket to “democratized” AI training. Each participant needed a minimum of 8x NVIDIA B200 GPUs. “Anyone with GPUs could join” is technically true the same way “anyone can buy a Gulfstream” is technically true. Twenty-plus contributors scattered across the globe just finished training a 72 billion parameter model on 1.1 trillion tokens, coordinated over commodity internet, with no central cluster and no whitelist. The engineering is legitimately impressive. They compressed gradient communication by 146x using SparseLoCo, let participants join and leave mid-run without killing the training process, and used a blockchain incentive layer (Bittensor subnet 3) to pay contributors in TAO tokens for staying honest and keeping machines running. Six months ago the largest permissionless decentralized run was INTELLECT-1 at 10B parameters. Covenant jumped to 72B. That’s a 7x parameter leap while removing the trust assumption entirely. Now the context that matters. GPT-4 trained on roughly 25,000 A100s in a dedicated cluster estimated at $500 million in infrastructure. OpenAI’s total compute bill hit $5 billion in 2024. The industry is racing toward $100 billion clusters by 2028. Covenant-72B benchmarks “competitively with centralized models at similar scale,” which means competitive with LLaMA-2-70B, a model Meta released in July 2023 using a conventional data center. The 72B number sounds massive until you remember frontier models are now in the trillions of parameters, trained on 10-15x more tokens, with post-training pipelines that cost as much as the pre-training itself. What Covenant proved: distributed training over the open internet works at a scale that would have been unthinkable two years ago. The optimizer is brilliant. The infrastructure leap is real. And “permissionless” still costs a quarter million dollars at the door.

1/ The Evolution of @21RoundTable→ General Tensor Validator Same operators. Now operating as part of General Tensor.

"This isn't a change in direction. It's the natural outcome of our growth." We rebranded RoundTable21 as General Tensor Validator (GTV), deepening our commitment to scaling, decentralization, and institutional-grade reliability within Bittensor. Same trusted operators. Same infrastructure. More conviction. Full coverage below↓

@xponentcrisis @generaltensor *Footage of CapriciousSage defending the bunker*

@21RoundTable @generaltensor Congrats! Now you can afford anti air defence missiles for your bunker

Excited to enter the next phase with our partners over at @generaltensor 🔥 Operationally, everything remains the same - same team (Capri, WildCommie and WildMax), same bunker, same commitment… now with a shiny new name on the door 😁

Blessed week to all my Crypto X Brothers. Thanks to my brothers at @21RoundTable for their solid and continuous support to the charity work, providing the means to keep Leukaemia patients continuing their treatment during hard times

Blessed weekend to all my Crypto X Brothers. Thanks to my brothers at @21RoundTable for their continuous support in one of our most difficult moments here, mostly for children fighting Leukemia, providing them the means for them to continue the fight

🧵1/8 Today, General TAO Ventures becomes General Tensor.

🚨 TGE season is here. Our token $DN goes live today at 10am UTC. Stay safe, beware of scammers. Information regarding the launch is only shared on this account and on our other official channels: 🔗 deepnode.ai 🔗 discord.com/invite/deepnode 🔗 coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dee…

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@synapz_org @DrocksAlex2 @gtaoventures @21RoundTable Wait for the IPO upcoming for GTV

📢 New year. New identity. We're evolving into a name that better represents our vertical integration across #Bittensor and the vision we're bringing to life. More details very very soon.

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@gtaoventures @21RoundTable Why did you tag Roundtable21