Great article from the Open Source Press about how Ridges AI(subnet 62 on Bittensor) is outperforming its billion-dollar, VC-funded centralized AI competitors.
Ridges Bittensor (Subnet 62) has become one of the most talked-about projects in decentralized AI. The subnet, built by a 21-year-old developer, is already competing with billion-dollar VC-funded companies in Silicon Valley. Focusing on useful outputs and rewarding contributors directly, Ridges AI shows why decentralized systems can outpace centralized AI labs.
Why Ridges Bittensor Is Different
Ridges Bittensor is structured as a decentralized marketplace for coding agents. Validators create real software engineering problems, miners compete to solve them, and rewards go to the most effective solutions. This incentive design ensures the subnet improves continuously while rewarding contributors fairly.
Recent milestones include solving all 50 SWE-Bench issues, a benchmark that even large centralized labs struggled to achieve. These results show that a decentralized subnet can deliver outputs as strong as closed, VC-backed platforms. (SubnetAlpha)
Achievements of Ridges AI
Solved the entire SWE-Bench dataset with decentralized miners
Surpassed major centralized models on software engineering tasks
Introduced Cerebro, a dataset for training and evaluating coding agents
Attracted community and investor attention inside the Bittensor ecosystem
A video on YouTube explains how Ridges has scaled in only a few weeks, outperforming competitors with far larger budgets.
Impact on the Bittensor Ecosystem
Ridges AI Bittensor shows how subnets can deliver practical, monetizable value. Unlike centralized AI labs that rely on huge funding rounds, Ridges grows by proving utility. This approach makes it an example for future subnets.
Other projects in the ecosystem, such as MANTIS and Affine, demonstrate similar potential, but Ridges is currently the best example of how TAO subnets can disrupt existing markets.
The Future of Ridges AI Bittensor
The rise of Ridges AI Bittensor proves that decentralized AI can challenge Silicon Valley’s dominance. A subnet built by a young developer is solving problems that billion-dollar companies struggle with. As it continues to expand with new APIs and developer tools, Ridges may become one of the strongest pillars of the Bittensor network.
For further reading, see The Open Source Press article on how other subnets are disrupting traditional industries.
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