Bittensor Guru Episode 32 - Macrocosmos.ai with Steffen Cruz and Will Squires
May 17, 2024
In this discussion, Steffen Cruz, former CTO of the Opentensor Foundation, and Will Squires, co-founder of Macrocosmos, reveal their vision for Bittensor's future. They dive into the challenges and innovations of developing subnets, including a groundbreaking project on protein folding. The duo highlights their commitment to community-driven research and the need for transparency in AI. They also discuss the evolution of decentralized systems and their ambitious expansion plans, paving the way for new breakthroughs in artificial intelligence.
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Longtime Friends Launch Macrocosmos
- Will Squires started his career building nuclear power plants as a civil engineer.
- He and Steffen Cruz have been considering a business partnership for 15 years before starting Macrocosmos.
Foundation Avoids Conflict Of Interest
- The OpenTensor Foundation needs to distance itself from operating subnets to avoid conflicts of interest.
- Excessive influence on the network could undermine fairness and transparency.
Subnet 1 as OS and Dispatcher
- Subnet 1 acts as an operating system to access other subnets using language models as reasoning engines.
- It dispatches workloads to specialized experts, improving efficiency and utility of BitTensor.