Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Praises Bittensor Subnet 3 as TAO Gains 4.23%

Jensen Huang compared Bittensor’s distributed AI training milestone to “our modern version of Folding@home,” while TAO jumped from $243.5 to $310.6 before easing, according to the report.

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Summary

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang discussed Bittensor on the All-In podcast after Chamath Palihapitiya pointed to a recent Subnet 3 training run as a major technical accomplishment. Huang responded by calling it “our modern version of Folding@home,” framing the project’s distributed AI training effort in familiar terms for mainstream tech audiences. The report also said a correction was later posted stating the run involved a 72 billion-parameter model, not 4 billion, and was trained permissionlessly across more than 70 contributors. Following the remarks, TAO rose from $243.5 to $310.6 before cooling to about $297-$298 by press time. Huang did not endorse the token directly, but said proprietary and open models should coexist and argued that specialized industries will need controllable open models.

Terms & Concepts
  • Bittensor: A blockchain-based network focused on decentralized artificial intelligence, where participants contribute compute or other resources and are rewarded with the TAO token.
  • Subnet 3: A Bittensor subnet highlighted in the report for a distributed training run involving a large Llama model across multiple contributors.
  • Distributed computing: A computing approach that splits workloads across many independent machines or participants instead of relying on one centralized system.