TAO Ecosystem Highlights of the Week

By: Victor

The Bittensor (TAO) ecosystem continues to move at lightning speed, with subnets shipping new products, hitting milestones, and expanding their impact across AI and crypto. Here are the latest highlights from around the network this week.

🚀 Subnet Updates & Achievements

Ridges (SN62)

• Achieved open-source state of the art in less than 4 months, scoring 73.6% on all 500 SWE-Bench verified questions.
• Added a new benchmark tab to their website.
• Closed an additional $672,000 OTC allocation into Ridges through DSV Fund.

Chutes (SN64)

• Launched Chutes Chat, a ChatGPT-like interface supporting all their models, image generation, web search, and more.
• Introduced Chat Branching, letting users explore multiple discussion paths.

Templar (SN3)

• Kicked off a new 70B training run.

Lium (SN51)

• Now requires fully collateralized machines. While this reduced GPU availability, it drastically improved quality and uptime.

Gradients (SN56)

• Began training Gradients 33B Instruct.
• Highlighted that they’ve surpassed all Web2 AI giants in training capabilities.

Score (SN44)

• Shipped v0.1 of their future subnet code and dropped a new GitHub repo.
• Announced TurboVision and a refreshed vision for their subnet.

Affine (SN120)

• Opened hiring with a $10k referral reward for engineers.

Macrocosmos (SN1, SN9, SN13)

• Shared multiple subnet updates.

TaonadoCash (SN113)

• Launched their first privacy pool, allowing $TAO deposits and withdrawals into different wallets with no association.

FlameWire (SN97)

• Now supports $TAO payments.

VoidAI (SN106)

• Testnet live, with mainnet launching next week.

404 (SN17)

• Teased 3D object generation from image prompts.

Gaia (SN57)

• Released validator and miner updates.

Zeus (SN18)

• Previewed an upcoming API with 7-day weather forecasts.

🌐 New Subnet Launches

RESI (SN46)

• Aims to build the world’s largest open-source real estate database.

Tenex (SN67)

• A new subnet enabling leverage subnet trading.

🔗 Bittensor Ecosystem

• Google Toronto AI Event: Dippy AI hosted with speakers from Manifold Labs and James Altucher.
• TaoFi: Released a subnet screener for charts and trading directly from Base.
• Tao.app: Introduced a new “About” tab for better discovery.
• Community Evangelism: The @bittensor handle was officially secured to expand outreach.

🎙️ Podcasts

• Novelty Search: Q&A with Const.
• Revenue Search 24: Siam and Mark Creaser with Zeus Subnet.
• Ventura Labs: Featured Shaq from Ridges.

📰 Articles

• Yuma Group published “State of Bittensor [Vol.1]”.
• Score’s sire_agent featured in WIRED.

⚡ Wrapping Up

From privacy pools to cutting-edge training runs, the Bittensor ecosystem is evolving at a breakneck pace. Subnets continue to prove that open, decentralized AI innovation is not only possible but thriving.

Stay tuned for next week’s roundup of ecosystem achievements, launches, and collaborations.