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CEO @MacrocosmosAI | Building intelligence on @opentensor
Joined May 2011
I have not programmed actively for years. I built an app in an hour using the SN1 + SN13 back-ends - it scrapes X for content on a user, then summarises it and provides a response using the Apex LLM. In a post-product era, the sheer versatility of building on Bittensor will let
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A literal universe of data. 34bn rows, and more coming. Bittensor native test time compute. @OpenAI - @opentensor is coming for you.
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go to bed.@const_reborn ships EVM.wake up.three teams already launched integrations (@BlockchatDAO respect).realise I’m not sleeping until dTAO. LETS GO.
Well … why wait?. ✅ Depermissioned EVM. Just pushed to Finney.
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What a great time at @endgame_summit - thanks to @madladshad for organising, and all of the TAO family for the supreme alpha. A few thoughts - 🧵
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Thrilled to announce @crux081208 and I are launching @MacrocosmosAI today - building on Bittensor. We’re building an amazing team, so reach out if you’re passionate about democratising intelligence, and building AI for all humankind. Thanks to @opentensor and @const_reborn.
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I have high conviction in @opentensor and @const_reborn - a team that has always focused on building. In dTAO, focus on what people are building - @mogmachine coming through for the ecosystem. We're launching Constellation next week - our multi-subnet platform. I can't wait.
We are SO EXCITED for dTao. Of course we have made sure you will have the full trading experience for dTao, but it is just one of a host of updates we have for you tonight.
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SN13 shipping fully private S3 implementation, and detailed keyword search. Will be reflected in Constellation in the next front end release after the subnet stabilises. SN13 eats everything. privately. also big news in T-minus two weeks (at @endgame_summit).
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Super fucking ecstatic and I don't care about swearing WE WON THE @RTPIPlanners AWARD FOR PLANNING LONDON DATAHUB!!! SMART CITY PROJECT EAT YOUR HEART OUT! Big love to the @MayorofLondon and @atkinsglobal that put heart and soul into this!!!.
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Excited to announce @atkinsglobal has been awarded a contract to help the @CambridgeCDBB build a benefits case for the #NationalDigitalTwin! Working with partners @OrdnanceSurvey (@mhsharp1) and with some help from @MottMacDonald as gracious support! First new project of 2020!.
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Very excited for this. @mxmsbt and Nigel at @webuildscore are legit, and after we met last year at @gylestensora’s event, we’ve been scheming behind the scenes. Next stage will be collectively prove @SpursOfficial is better than @Arsenal. Much more to come.
Result ✅ SN13 🤝 SN44. Subnet 13, Data-Universe, is collaborating with subnet 44, Score ⚽ @webuildscore. Data Universe will power Score with soccer sentiment analysis in real time, enabling #SN44 to correlate in-game metrics with fan reactions - contextualising match statistics
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you know vibe coding is dangerous when I can build a copy of twitter on top of SN13 in 35 minutes . so fucking bullish.
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composability is what will make Bittensor explode. building an incentive mechanism in November 2024 is a world away from building an incentive in October 2023.
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@const_reborn Amazing work. 24 minutes to catch the issue and move into problem solving. 24 hours to have a full damage assessment and triage, and plan of action for treatment. 24 days till this is old news.
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predictions for month 2.5:. high probability:.low conviction teams exiting.high conviction teams continuing to ship (it's a marathon, not a sprint).I continue to age at triple my usual rate. low probability: .@namoray_dev is secretly pamela anderson in disguise.
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We’re hiring across technical roles (AI/ML, back-end, front-end, product/UX). Future Cosmonauts apply within, or drop an email to careers@macrocosmos.ai.
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Subnet connectivity is a key trend. In conversations with @ReadyAI_, @BitMindAI and @benzion_b, I think 2025 will be the year of the connected subnet system, and more broadly links outside Bittensor to accelerate the combinatorial flywheel.
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Very excited to be leading this important piece of work driving a #NationalDigitalTwin for @CambridgeCDBB. Serious brain trust activity at work in unpacking this.
We've been appointed to define just how the UK could benefit from a national #digitaltwin; a connected ecosystem of data-sharing across the transport network, energy supply, water industry assets and other infrastructure. Learn more about the project:
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Huge news for @manifoldlabs @dippy_ai. Bittensor continues to go from strength to strength. In this ecosystem, we win together.
The @dippy_ai app (serving 600K+ MAU) is now powered by Bittensor!. Model training is done on SN11, and inference on @manifoldlabs SN4. You can choose "Mini" in Dippy's model picker to try it yourself. Why are we working on this, and where do we go from here? ( 1/5🧵)
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I'll be at @endgame_summit, talking all things about @MacrocosmosAI, our Constellation of subnets, and what we see as the bleeding edge in #Bittensor. I will also be drinking pints.
Meet @WSquires, CEO of @MacrocosmosAI, running SN1, SN9, SN13, SN25 and SN37. Will is one of the hardest working figures in Bittensor. Come hear from Will in April, in Austin, on what it's like to accelerate innovation at such an insane pace, while keeping one's sanity.
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@fish_datura hey man. I’ve got these H100’s just lying around. anything you can do with them dude?.
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I'm announcing a bounty. At then next @opentensor meet-up / off-site / whatever, I am sending a keg. Thanks for not sleeping guys. Amazing work, amazing response. amazing community. @shibshib89 @const_reborn just let me know.
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I'm very proud of what we're doing at Macrocosmos, particularly around protein folding. Lots more to come in the next few weeks on this, particularly with the MVP release of our initial protein folding app - keep your eyes peeled.
We at @MacrocosmosAI recently had a fantastic meeting, discussing the current state of #SN25 (Protein Folding) and our plans for the future!. Keep an eye out for September 24th, when we'll be releasing V1.0.0 with OpenMM 🚀. #DeAI #bittensor $TAO
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Hit me up if you want early access to our API layer - keen to get builders involved. @MacrocosmosAI.
1/ Announcing Dorm Builders - a student hackathon operated by @Collab_Currency x @Dorm_DAO. For Season 01, we’re partnering with @opentensor, enabling students from the world's top universities to build on Bittensor, the pioneering network for artificial intelligence
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Congrats to @TensorplexLabs - one of the foremost AI teams in Bittensor. Cracked team that led the competitions on SN9 for most of last year on top of what they've listed here.
1/7 We're excited to announce that @YZiLabs has invested in Tensorplex Labs, a decentralized AI lab co-founded by @xponentcrisis and @overlyleveraged, driving innovation with Tensorplex Dojo & @BackpropFinance!.
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@BarrySilbert announcing @YumaGroup was clearly the biggest news. Strengthening Bittensor’s corporate and professional muscle is only good news for the protocol. I look forward to working with them closely, and helping to advance Bittensor further as we move from R&D to scale.
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Very excited to see @Old_Samster and @bloomberg_seth announce this - the first truly Bittensor native investment fund. More to come.
Today I’m proud to announce Unsupervised Capital — a liquid token fund dedicated to Bittensor. At a moment when conviction feels scarce across crypto, I’ve never felt more clarity or confidence about a single thesis: Bittensor. I’m launching this with my longtime friend
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Finally. the vibes. Incredible people, incredible alpha, and I am more bullish than ever.
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The first of our subnets to go fully dynamic, fully democratic, and fully drivable by TAO holders. Go direct the fundamental force of the internet yourself.
📣@MacrocosmosAI has just launched Gravity on Subnet 13, Data Universe! 🪐 This allows validators to set a preference for the type of data they would like to get scraped. This is a big update for SN13, as it allows our already huge dataset to get used for more specific purposes.
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at @MacrocosmosAI we run regular paper clubs on our research initiatives on incentive mechanism design. is this something people would be interested in us opening up?. health warning: lots of memes and data driven bullshit mixed with high grade research.
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Hugely excited to finally release this - a lot of long nights arguing about citations. One of our core goals as a team when @Macrocrux and I formed @MacrocosmosAI was to bring a research-led approach the work we are doing on Bittensor. This white paper is our first statement.
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Out of office on. Sabbatical here we go! Buenos Aires, I’ll see you Monday.
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1/ I have rarely had as much anticipation, excitement, or fear as I had about the dTAO Launch. To add to the thoughtful views of our panelists, here are a few of my own thought - a thread 🧵.
Today marks one month since dTAO's launch 🚀 So we're asking: how's it been for you?. From founders to miners, investors to holders, we asked key voices from across the #Bittensor community to give their perspective on the change - and creating the first cross-section of opinion
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Mom I'm on TV. Thanks @pr_validator and @IanKhanFuturist for making this happen!.
Coming soon to @PrimeVideo . @shibshib89 @cosmo_jiang @WSquires @macrocrux produced by @IanKhanFuturist
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lets go.
🚀 Decentralized web-searching and social media analysis on Claude and Cursor, brought to you by Macrocosmos 🚀. We’ve released our Model Context Protocol (MCP), letting you directly integrate SN1 and SN13’s APIs into Claude and Cursor 💥 These agentic tools allow you to:. 🔎
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At @UKLabour Conference today, where I’ll be on the Opening AI Panel at 1, talking about what we’re doing at @MacrocosmosAI, and how we’re creating open intelligence for all.
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Vector search, coming to a nebula near you this week. Powered by SN13.
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dTAO was a more developed conversation, with @CrucibleLabs, @taostats and @opentensor now working on simulations along with @MacrocosmosAI. Our intention is to collectively publish more of this. Credit to @xavierlyu for his work in this.
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who's going to be the first miner to crawl Novelty Search, @VenturaLabs @KeithSingery and @markjeffrey
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London Development Database project dashboards slowly going live in test. Super exciting to see the first sight of live end to end data coming through from authorities into central dashboards for #London. @kemp_peter claimed the first post on LinkedIn but I'm taking Twitter!
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Very much enjoyed the @SME4LABOUR panel on Opening AI with @Louise_Jones_MP @SarahEdwardsTam and @AmandaBrockUK covering risks, regulation and the skills needed for a thriving U.K. AI sector. Real sense of hope in the room.
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my dataset also brings all the miners to the yard.
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The work never stops, and the next month will be our biggest yet. Very excited to be able to show what we've been working on behind the scenes.
Take a look at our subnet status update report for January 2025 🎉. This highlights all five of our subnets' changes, improvements, and roadmaps for Q1 🗣️ It also contains general updates about Macrocosmos 💥.
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One of the missions @macrocrux and I wanted to crack on Bittensor was making actual, genuine contributions to scientific research. This is a really meaningful step in that direction. Can't wait to cook with the talented team at @RowanSci - massive shout out to our man @mccrinbc.
Starting today, Macrocosmos is partnering with Rowan Scientific 🧬. Neural network potentials (NNPs) are revolutionizing molecular simulation. We're teaming up with @RowanSci to accelerate the next generation of models for molecular simulation through #SN25, Mainframe ⚛️. Our
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A significant number of subnet teams, new and old, are in the process of raising capital. Building on @JosephJacks_ treatises - I expect to see heavily backed teams in mining and subnet ownership raise the competition. The stakes are being raised.
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Looking forward to @proofoftalk with a bunch of great other speakers. My co-founder @macrocrux and I will be talking about what we're working on to push the boundaries of decentralised AI systems, and we'll also be dropping some big news - can't wait.
We’re excited to welcome Will Squires (@WSquires), Co-Founder & CEO of @MacrocosmosAI, to Proof of Talk 2025, joining 120+ leading voices in Web3 & AI. With a diverse background spanning engineering, product strategy, and artificial intelligence, Will is now focused on building
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I'm in Austin from 22nd - who is about? hmu. @MacrocosmosAI mostly arriving from Thursday 24th.
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tweets, images, videos, private storage . SN13 eats even more.
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@MacrocosmosAI’s roadmap for Constellation and SDKs is aimed to support this, and we will be announcing more on this over coming months.
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These "sTAO" implementations are not consensus representations. They are akin to allowing you to utilise your neighbours vote if they do not show up to the ballot box, and are encouraging bad behaviours in the network. A fairer method would be divergence from mean or consensus.
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bittensor can be complex. following up on my post from last week, we're going to be running some more show-alls of what goes into designing incentives - details to follow by the end of the week. we're going to open up a bit more about what it really means to build subnets.
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The breadth of opportunity for utilising Bittensor’s commodities is growing. Shout out to @HiglobeOfficial and @trylolli for some very interesting conversations. I expect to see more integration of products outside of Bittensor over the coming months.
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As always, a pleasure talking with @venturalabs. Keep on buidling.
Ventura Labs Ep. 32 - Steffen Cruz and Will Squires. Steffen (@macrocrux) and Will (@WSquires) are the Co-Founders of Macrocosmos (@MacrocosmosAI). Timestamps:.4:15 - Introduction.5:08 - Celebrating Milestones and Team Growth.8:03 - Legacy Features and Future Customization.11:12
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@CountYFI @const_reborn @TAOlie_SOL More miners = good. You’re very happy to reach out to me or any of our team. We want as many people involved in mining Bittensor as possible at Macrocosmos. Just bring your A game.
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Proud to be a part of the @SafetiBase team taking health and safety software of the year at #constructioncomputingawards. A fantastic collaboration between @atkinsglobal @3DRepo @HS2ltd @MottMacDonald @balfourbeatty funded by @i3P_Ideas. A huge thank you to everyone involved!
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Slightly surreal feeling that I will be lecturing at @ucl today to a bunch of masters graduates researching #digital in #construction. Very grateful to @bet_morgan and @elnpap for inviting me back!.
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Working directly with the data from SN13 has been a really useful process for us in product development. Really back to the "four V's" of big data that was around a few years ago - volume, veracity, variety, and veracity - we'll be looking at all of these aspects as we develop.
Insights are only as good as the data they’re based on. @MacrocomosAI’s subnet 13, Data Universe, has been scraping social media data about the US election via #Gravity - and the datasets have been cleansed to ensure quality alongside their vast quantity 📊. Macrocosmos is using
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excited for this - the first release of the agentic system behind Constellation. all of our integrations between subnets will natively be agentic / supported in nature - lots more to come on this, but this is the first teaser release. much more to come at endgame.
🧑🚀 Introducing. Mission Commander 🧑🚀. Your new guide to Data Universe, through an #SN1 Apex-powered chat interface which can now:. 💡 Identify the optimal hashtags and data sources for your query.🧩 Automatically populate your query with the data labels.⚡ Suggest improvements
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@lior_eth TAO has a very strong technical mechanism to orchestrate consensus of compute intensive tasks handled off chain. For example, Yuma Consensus (the core IP) allows you to run full spot checks on LLM training runs on a series of distributed GPUs, offshoring the compute, but ‘on.
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what dTAO needs is more space.
🚀dTAO GETS LIFTOFF!🚀 So what does the future hold? And where could dTAO take us?. 🔭 Our stargazing has revealed four dTAO futures 🔮 Each scenario explores how dTAO's impact on subnet growth and staking could lead to specific economic trajectories across #Bittensor 🪐. Come
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At @CPCatapult for a meeting, and see myself on the giant screen. Does this mean I’ve made it mum?.
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I'm very thankful that @macrocrux speaks English as well as he codes - bullish about the work shipping on SN1.
Subnet 1 has invented an entirely new species of incentive mechanism, designed to kickstart the decentralized superintelligence flywheel. Two big pieces of our SN1 roadmap came together this week; Deep Researcher and GANs. This competition is about to go wild.
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Anyone ever tempted to rewrite your CV including your REAL first jobs. "As a paper boy, I was responsible for distribution and logistics for an entire postcode. I worked closely with stakeholders (notably by mum) to introduce a new HR policy (e.g. cups of tea at halfway).
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@mentatminds @MacrocosmosAI mom I'm a financial instrument now. Amazing work guys, and thanks for the support!.
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Huge results. Decentralised training can compete. Much more to come from us on SN9 this quarter.
🎉 Our dataset mixing results are in: SN9, pretraining, is producing models competitive with SOTA rivals from companies like DeepSeek AI, Mistral, and Google on prominent benchmarks (1/4)
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What a summer! After an absolutely bruising few months without a break, I'm excited to have the out of office on and off to Italy and warmer climes ! Some fantastic wins (with amazing clients), great work in flight (that we can't wait to share), but can't wait for a break!.
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#braintrust solving the logic model for the benefits of @CambridgeCDBB’s #NationalDigitalTwin. This is definitely my level 10 geek project of 2020.
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Bittensor's power to bootstrap teams is an undeniable strength - how we make sure this survives in dTAO was a topic on the absolute fire panel with @gylestensora @0xcarro and @xponentcrisis (my favourite moment of the whole conference). Shout out to these absolute chads.
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Excited to be working with @BSI_UK as a member of the Steering Group for their latest standard on Smart Cities (PAS186) - interesting to see the progression in industry maturity from early stage strategy to talking about recommendations for implementation of products and services.
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I'm having a terrifying realisation that the main thing from the office that affects my productivity I'm missing most is a WHITEBOARD.
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Can't believe it! My favourite project of all time, working with some genius' @LDN_gov including the eponymous @kemp_peter! A transformative project to modernise planning in London!.
👏👏👏 At the #RTPIAwards for Planning Excellence 2021, on to the Excellence in Tech within Planning Practice category - congratulations to our winners Planning London Datahub - Greater London Authority submitted by @atkinsglobal.@RTPI_LONDON @CPCatapult @LDN_gov
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@badenglishtea For clarity, Const has none of the emission to SN9. There is a distributed team working on this (including @MacrocosmosAI) developing this subnet, with a major release shipping in the next days. We'll be sharing our vision for the roadmap for SN9 shortly - watch this space.
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My dashboard brings all the miners to the yard @macrocrux.
Not going to pretend I know what's going on at the protein folding subnet but damn. @MacrocosmosAI has the sexiest dashboards
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Feels like the culmination of a lot of stuff taught to me by @adam_dennett @CASAUCL.
Today we have launched the UK's Geospatial Strategy - a 5 year plan for developing the UK's location data framework #UKGeospatialStrategy #UnlockingLocation . Please visit our pages to learn more.
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finally, great to just spend on deck with the gang, and learn to line dance - thanks @notYourBananaa . bullish AF.
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I’m thrilled that @DecentralDev_ is joining us as we start to launch our SDK and tooling across our subnets and Constellation. More building to come.
Developers drive everything we do. That's why we're thrilled to announce Victor Kanu, @DecentralDev_ as our new Developer Relationships Manager. Prior to joining Macrocosmos, Victor was Head of AI DevRel at Bagel, working on monetizable AI 👏 He was also DevRel for NEAR
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Great day at the @HeathrowAirport digital asset showcase today showing off some of the rocket science we’re doing with #artificialintelligence and #machinevision - sneaky peek here (no buzzwords, real technology)
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Builders, free stuff to help make better subnets.
On the eleventh day of Xmas, we’re unveiling Atom, our very own SDK 🌌 This is designed for the entire Bittensor community (not just Macrocosmos users) - a toolkit for miners, validators, and subnet builders. We want Atom to help Bittensor users build performance-boosting tools
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If you're a construction geek, check out my recommendations in @BuildingNews for where to drag your beloved to if you like geeking out on #architecture and #construction things. Also, Naples is a beauty, particularly the new metro construction (and the old boats beneath)!.
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Strange moment of surreality - just got the noise that we're going to be mobilising back into our offices in the next fortnight (on a reduced capacity basis). I am EXCITED - looking forward to going for the coffee breaks that fuel the best ideas, and HAVING A WHITEBOARD.
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Planning London Datahub is LIVE! Exciting exciting exciting! Check the link below to check out some of the wizardry the GLA and our data team have started to cook up.
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Stoked to be working with 3DRepo on how we can drive better benefits for planning through new tech!.
We're excited to have been selected to take part in the Mayor of London's #CivicInnovationChallenge to tackle the challenge of democratising planning in London! @SocialTechTrust.
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Citizen-led urbanism at it's absolute best! Amazing work from @hackney_cycling to take the opportunity for a greener borough into their own hands!.
A plan to transform our borough & the way people move within it, outlining how we can achieve a #HealthySafeAccessible Hackney, benefiting everyone who lives, works and visits our borough. Hackney Cycling Campaign is excited to present the #HackneyVision: .
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