Affine 1, trained by anonymous Bittensor miners, matches Opus 4.1 on intelligence score
markjeffrey · x · 2026-09-29
At Exploit Summit, @constreborn delivered what many call Bittensor's best keynote yet. Key points:
- Affine 1, trained entirely by anonymous miners on Bittensor, matches the intelligence score of Anthropic's Opus 4.1
- 23 of 128 subnets now have paying customers
- Gamma tokens are coming to turn subnet usage credits into something agents can buy from any chain
- "We're not afraid of hyper-intelligent bot swarms on the internet. We use them to optimize our technology."
The talk signals notable progress for decentralized training networks closing the gap with top closed-source models.
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