Kai (τ | α, ι, ν)

Content & Communications at @MacrocosmosAI

Philosophy | Law | Self-sovereignty | Psychedelia

[Kai (τ | α, ι, ν) @KJ__Morris]

dTAO fundamentally shifted #Bittensor’s community.

The social fabric has altered. We've drifted from a 'collectivist' space to an 'individualist' one.

It's the biggest ideological move in the protocol’s history, and it’s not just in your head.

I wrote about the good, the bad, and the real implications of this new era.

People aren’t talking about it, but there’s a good chance you’ve felt it 👁️

https://t.co/R7VVYFJcfC

[Kai (τ | α, ι, ν) @KJ__Morris]

@moonlit_ds @Bitcast_network Got a lot of respect for the @Bitcast_network and @Stitch3_ai team.

They really understand Bittensor's pulse and trajectory

[Kai (τ | α, ι, ν) @KJ__Morris]

Had a lot of fun conducting and writing this interview. Was a really illuminating chat!

If you're interested in @IOTA_SN9 or distributed AI, give this is a read. Some dope insights.

[Macrocosmos @MacrocosmosAI]

Our AI Research Lead, Dr. Alan Aboudib, has been instrumental in building @IOTA_SN9 and launching Orion-100B, the largest distributed LLM pretraining run conducted over the open internet across globally distributed infrastructure.

We spoke with Alan about his background, education, experiences, and perspectives on AI.

Alan was a lead architect behind ResBM, our SOTA compression technique designed specifically for IOTA. He has pushed our work to the frontier of distributed AI development, helping us achieve feats that were only imaginable several years ago.

[Angry Davee @AngryDavee]

Bittensor | $TAO

Another important highlight of @proofoftalk is that you don't need to be there in person to participate

Subnet Summer is an official media partner and is streaming live.

Here's your opportunity to participate in the bittensor track in the biggest AI and web3 conference from the comfort of your home

Watch the Livestream here 👇

[Kai (τ | α, ι, ν) @KJ__Morris]

See my article here:

https://t.co/iOypzVnqg3

[Kai (τ | α, ι, ν) @KJ__Morris]

Conviction is #Bittensor’s largest infrastructural change since dTAO.

It’s an architectural solution to a social problem.

It asks: How do you stop bad actors from abandoning their projects and running away with the profits?

This is a problem most blockchains don’t even think about.

Conviction doesn’t prevent hacks, but it does prevent attacks.

If code is law, then this is on-chain jurisprudence.

I’m extremely excited. As someone with a career in blockchain tech, whose academic home is in Law and Philosophy, I’m curious about how this operates and unfolds.

Read my article to dive into the cultural and philosophical aspects.

[Kai (τ | α, ι, ν) @KJ__Morris]

@ShizzyUnchained @yrodz12 @LamidaGlobal @proofoftalk @ycombinator Hi @ShizzyUnchained, I work on Macrocosmos Comms. Just dropped you a DM. Happy to chat about Apex and answer any questions for you

[Kai (τ | α, ι, ν) @KJ__Morris]

@webuildscore @aliktareen Dope news!

...But wen tennis?? 🙏🎾

[Moonlit @moonlit_ds]

EarnYourMac is now live on the BitStarter Idea Forum.

The mission is simple: every user or agent with access to Apple Silicon compute should be able to contribute meaningful work to Bittensor and earn from it.

Huge thanks to @MacrocosmosAI, ( @macrocrux ) and @actualinc ( @Tom_A_Lynch ) and their respective teams for proving that Apple Silicon can be a serious compute path for Bittensor. (and @const_reborn , for the whole thing)

@IOTA_SN9 is proving it through Apple Silicon focused distributed training. @actualinc is proving it through distributed inference across heterogeneous machines.

Their work showed me this idea was possible, and pushed me to start building around it.

EarnYourMac will freely promote any subnet that has a valid miner path for Apple Silicon.

Free, forever. Forever free. 0% fee. No gatekeeping.

If your subnet can accept meaningful work from Macs, I want to route Apple Silicon users to you.

Also happy to work with anyone who shares the same goal: making every human or agent with access to Apple Silicon compute able to contribute to Bittensor.

https://t.co/5s0MmJNHHu

[Kai (τ | α, ι, ν) @KJ__Morris]

@MaxScore @arnod3f @manakoarchie goated reference, great stuff!

[Kai (τ | α, ι, ν) @KJ__Morris]

We've been really hyped to get this one out to the world.

It's a highly technical paper, designed for an academic audience.

But for fans of @IOTA_SN9 and distributed training who don't hold an ML PhD, I def recommend throwing this into an LLM of your choice and seeing what we're up to.

The super simple upshot: we've developed a new method of training AI models across the internet, achieving state-of-the-art results. It paves the way for distributed training to happen more efficiently and at greater scale.

Serious research born from a serious protcool - #Bittensor's on top as it always is.

[Macrocosmos @MacrocosmosAI]

Today, we present ResBM (https://t.co/EqfVZRerDY), a 128x activation compression technique for achieving SOTA training results in low-bandwidth, distributed communication settings for pipeline parallel training across the internet.

This technology underpins @IOTA_SN9 - our distributed training platform.

[Kai (τ | α, ι, ν) @KJ__Morris]

@mccrinbc Beautifully said. The space is messy but it's clean, it's distributed but it's intimate.

There's warmth here.

[Kai (τ | α, ι, ν) @KJ__Morris]

It's genuinely wild chatting with the researchers who've worked on this. The level of brainpower and innovation that's gone into this is unmatched. Hyped for the full paper release.

While this research is impressive purely from an AI angle, it can't be ignored just how astonishing it is to train models with #Bittensor's architecture.

[Macrocosmos @MacrocosmosAI]

Training frontier models over the internet requires new techniques.

Today, we present ResBM, a residual encoder-decoder bottleneck architecture that enables 128x activation compression for low-bandwidth distributed pipeline parallel training.

Developed for @IOTA_SN9, we show SOTA compression without significant loss in convergence rates, increases in memory, or compute overhead.

Expect the full paper release in the next 72 hours.

[Kai (τ | α, ι, ν) @KJ__Morris]

See the full result here

https://t.co/dcPLAjEMtR

[Kai (τ | α, ι, ν) @KJ__Morris]

21 days ago, @Apex_SN1 released its IOTA simulator competition. Miners compete to find optimal path planning and network topology strategies.

In other words, they’re using a digital twin of the @IOTA_SN9 network to improve its efficiency.

Since then, there’s been 19 rounds, with top participants regularly pushing the results forward.

Here’s a preview of the current winner.

Many will have seen the demo for the simulator before, but it’s 100% worth seeing it fully in action.

[Louise Beattie @LouiseBeattie]

Bittensor rewards miners who break your subnet. Traditional businesses sue people who find their flaws.

Every time a miner games the incentive mechanism, they're showing the subnet owner exactly where the design is broken. Every exploit is a free stress test run by some of the most technically capable people in the world, and they're financially motivated to find every crack.

@macrozack described it like being a video game designer. You build the level but you never play it. The miners play it and show you where your design fails.

"When they break the rules, they inadvertently illuminate your weaknesses. They show you where you need to improve. It's like you're outsourcing your R&D to anyone all over the world who wants to contribute and who wants the reward."

Traditional R&D costs millions and happens behind closed doors. On Bittensor, your R&D is permissionless, global, and the best contributors get paid for finding what you missed.

[Kai (τ | α, ι, ν) @KJ__Morris]

Read this to understand what's going on https://t.co/S7xJRnJEFc

[Kai (τ | α, ι, ν) @KJ__Morris]

The level of work it takes to make something both visually beautiful and visually meaningful is gargantuan.

I’m taken aback by it.

Serious AI research that’s aesthetically pleasing.

I need these visuals at my next rave

@Apex_SN1 🤝 @IOTA_SN9

[Apex・SN1 @Apex_SN1]

We’ve built a simulation of the @IOTA_SN9 communication network.

This is a high-fidelity digital twin - an abstracted version of our distributed training architecture, designed as a testing ground to run experiments and develop novel algorithms to increase the speed and quality of model training.

We’re using the simulator as an environment for open competitions on Apex, outsourcing algorithmic innovations to the Bittensor miners.

It’s the first time our simulator can be interacted with by the public.

Our opening simulator competition is live now.

[Kai (τ | α, ι, ν) @KJ__Morris]

If you're even just a little interested in what AI will become, you need to be listening to this

@IOTA_SN9 + @Pluralis are futuregazing like nobody else

[Alexander Long @AlexanderLong]

deAI predictions for 2026 https://t.co/wirJvAT5H0

[Kai (τ | α, ι, ν) @KJ__Morris]

Read my article on worldbuilding in Bittensor and culture as a trust signal here.

https://t.co/tClnmZUbK3

[Kai (τ | α, ι, ν) @KJ__Morris]

The community makes the blockchain. The tech and the tokenomics help build interest, but the participants truly set the tone.

I’ve spent approximately 9 years in the blockchain industry, I’ve never ran into a community as passionate as #Bittensor’s

People stick around when they see a thriving space. Healthy social engagement is magnetising. However, Bittensor has taken it further than any blockchain I’ve ever come across.

We don’t do community building here. This feels like worldbuilding.

The history, mythology, and philosophy. They form a culture. I’ve written a piece about why that matters. See the link below.