Decentralizing AI is hard. But without intelligent incentives, it’s impossible.

AI is too important to be captured and centralized. But without effective incentive mechanisms, we can’t organize compute at the scale necessary to compete.

Web1 showed how open-source protocols can create free, democratic, and prosperous online communities. Web2 showed that, unless such communities rapidly develop user interfaces, product APIs, and protections of shared ownership, such protocols will always be vulnerable to corporate takeover,

We believe that the future of Web3 is still open. And we want to keep it that way.

Macrocosmos is an open-source AI research lab,
building on Bittensor.

By creating competitive, secure, validated marketplaces for AI development, we unlock the potential of distributed networks to serve broader interests beyond the walled garden - create powerful, decentralized, and equitable intelligence for all.

Bittensor is the largest open source blockchain network for training and building machine learning models. Harnessing distributed compute at scale, Bittensor incentivises and rewards participants, creating an ecosystem of skilled teams competing to improve model performance. In turn, this drives efficiency up, and the cost of compute down. Its open-source architecture gives AI innovators what they need to thrive: transparency, ownership and accountability.

Our expert team operates four subnets - and improves
their integration.

At Macrocosmos, we build and operate four subnets on Bittensor. We’re honing the environment on which AI innovators can build new applications, by designing incentive mechanisms and reward structures that make world-class compute accessible and affordable. We see ourselves as an incubator for the Bittensor platform: conducting groundbreaking research, testing new concepts, and continuously driving innovation.

Each subnet - language, pre-training, data-scraping, and fine-tuning - is a network incentivising the development of machine learning models. Together, they can enhance performance across the whole Bittensor ecosystem, creating a platform for new, open source AI applications at scale.

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