BULLISH 📈 : Nvidia CEO highlights Bittensor; TAO jumps 28%
Jensen Huang likens Bittensor to “Folding@home”; TAO spikes to $310.6, pulls back near $297
TAO jumped after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang highlighted Bittensor on the All-In podcast. Price ran from $243.5 to $310.6, then eased to about $297 by press time. Podcast source. Chart.
Huang’s reaction to Bittensor’s latest training run was concise. “Our modern version of Folding@home.” Watch.
Chamath Palihapitiya flagged a “pretty crazy technical accomplishment.” He pointed to a distributed training on Subnet 3 that kept state while training a Llama model. Bittensor contributors later clarified the run was Covenant-72B, trained permissionlessly across 70+ contributors. Source tweet.
Huang broadened the point. “We fundamentally need models as proprietary and as open source… it’s A and B.” He added, “Models are a technology, not a service.” Transcript via podcast.
He split consumer and industry use. For consumers, he prefers turnkey products like ChatGPT and Claude. For domain-specific deployments, he said control and open models are necessary. Podcast source.
- Event catalyst Huang’s comments on All-In link
- Price action TAO $243.5 to $310.6, then near $297 chart
- Tech milestone Covenant-72B trained across 70+ contributors tweet
- Key quote “Our modern version of Folding@home” video
- Market framing Coexistence of proprietary and open models video
