Bittensor Ecosystem Highlights – May Week 3

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A roundup of the latest moves across Bittensor subnets, ecosystem partnerships, and conversations shaping decentralized AI this week.

Subnet Updates & Achievements

• Zipcode (SN46): Resi has rebranded as Zipcode, unveiling a global identity refresh.
• Vidaio (SN85): A sneak peek of Vidaio’s benchmark report shows the subnet hitting SOTA, and the Vidaio Agent beta testing program is now open.
• Score (SN44): The new Detect Car Wash skill is live, with a Road Sign Detection skill on the way.
• AFFINE (SN120): A new version of AFFINE is beating SOTA every day.
• Chutes (SN64) × Trishool (SN23): Chutes is deploying Trishool’s Halo Guard Alpha as a safety layer for Chutes Chat and Fictio.
• Quasar (SN24): Quasar mainnet is officially live, with plans to push from 3B to 20B to 100B this year.
• Ditto (SN118): Editable documents are now live on Ditto.
• Leadpoet (SN71): A new partnership with Exa AI Labs brings best-in-class search infrastructure to Leadpoet builders.
• Bitsec (SN60): The top agent scored 38.1%, a 10%+ jump on the leaderboard since the last round.
• Beam (SN105): Beam teased the upcoming Beam Portal.
• Cacheon (SN14): Cacheon is now live on mainnet.
• Babelbit (SN59): The team is two months ahead of their initial GTM plan.
• Gradients (SN56): A showcase of fine-tuning an LLM for confidential medical questions.
• Apex (SN1): The IOTA Simulator competition crossed 22k+ submissions and made epoch times ~29% faster.
• AdTao (SN21): AdTao’s IM is now live on mainnet.
• Vocence (SN78): Vocence Studio shipped new features.
• qBitTensor (SN63): Terra Quantum confirmed as the RSA challenge partner.
• Investing88 (SN88): A sneak peek of the new Investing88 website.

Bittensor Ecosystem

• The Bittensor AI Subnet Ideathon is happening in Shanghai with HackQuest, Affine, and Metanova Labs.
• Yuma Group announced that app, custody, and institutional users on Crypto.com can now stake both TAO and subnet tokens.
• General Tensor and Talisman partnered to streamline Bittensor trading, subnet discovery, and institutional deployment from custody to execution.
• James Altucher launched bluetao.ai, a ChatGPT-like interface powered entirely by Bittensor subnets, including Chutes.

Podcasts & Articles

• Opentensor’s Novelty Search featuring Ventura Labs.
• Hash Rate with Matthew Karas of Babelbit.
• Hash Rate with Koyuki from Vocence.
• Ventura Labs podcast with Vocence and Perturbaix.
• Haitzu’s podcast featuring Max Score from Score.
• DSV Fund revenue search with djinn.
• Gordon Frayne’s podcast with Gavin Zaentz from Leadpoet.
• Gordon Frayne’s podcast with Trishool.
• Green Compute’s presentation at Siam Kidd’s mini Bittensor event.
• Sami Kassab’s article, “The Only Place Agents Actually Work Together Today”.