Posts tagged with #Templar
Templar and the Political Economy of Foundation Models
In the same month, Jack Clark and Chamath Palihapitiya independently flagged the same thing: a 72-billion-parameter model trained across 160 GPUs by anonymous participants coordinating through a blockchain. Neither is a Bittensor insider. Both recognized what it means when the ability to create foundation models stops being a privilege of five organizations.
Strawbery Fields: Why Does Covenant-72B Look Broken?
Someone on X pointed out that Covenant-72b can't count the R's in strawberry. They're right. But so were the people who laughed at GPT-4 for the same mistake two years before it started passing the bar exam. The interesting question was never whether the model fails. It's why, what that reveals about intelligence, and what happens next.
deAI's 900: Why Covenant72B Will Soon Be Ordinary (And Why That's the Point)
Tony Hawk spent thirteen years trying to land a trick the world said was impossible. Within a decade, teenagers were doing it on YouTube. Steven Kotler calls this the 'seeing it done' effect. Covenant72B, the largest model ever trained on a fully decentralized network, is that same moment for AI. The impossible just became the starting line.
The Internet is the Datacenter: How Templar is Building the Final Form of Decentralized AI Training
For eighty years, the most powerful technologies have required concentration: co-located machines in fortress datacenters, tightly controlled by those who could afford the infrastructure. This week's research breakthrough from Templar marks something different, a technical path toward intelligence as genuinely distributed public infrastructure, where your home GPU can train frontier models alongside Google's datacenters.
The Long Run: What Running Taught Me About Building Decentralized AI (and What Decentralized AI Taught Me About Running)
Three years ago, I wouldn't have believed I'd be training for a half marathon while helping coordinate a decentralized AI protocol. But both journeys, the solo morning miles and the collective effort to democratize artificial intelligence, follow the same philosophy.
CCLoco: How Templar is Breaking the Communication Barrier in Decentralized AI Training
Why a technical breakthrough in gradient compression could reshape who controls the future of artificial intelligence
The Basement Rebellion: How a Bunch of Crypto Punks Are Building the People's AI
Meet the cryptopunk miners of Templar training AI models on their gaming rigs, challenging the assumption that only trillion-dollar companies can build artificial intelligence.