Bittensor Subnet 120 launches Affine-1, a 36B decentralized model claiming SOTA
markjeffrey · x · 2026-09-29
Bittensor's Subnet 120 launched its flagship "Affine-1" model: 36B parameters with 3B active, claimed to be SOTA for its size and to beat Qwen3.6 35B, matching Opus 4.1 (roughly two-year-old frontier capability). The model was trained in a decentralized fashion. These are unverified claims from the project team.
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