Victor VL

Kusanagi Validator currently ranks #2 all-time in basket performance on @taoswap_org We're also the only validator publicly explaining how we select and weight the subnets in our basket. Our methodology is available for anyone to explore directly on Taoswap

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Today, the Kusanagi team visited MIT’s @medialab to present Bittensor. We met with the lab’s leadership and researchers for initial discussions about a potential partnership between @MIT and the wider Bittensor ecosystem through @opentensor. Let’s make TAO win.

Who gets to build the next generation of AI? That question matters for Canada. Competing with the largest US and Chinese AI labs on sheer scale requires enormous amounts of capital, computing infrastructure and talent. But there is another path: creating conditions where independent researchers and companies can build, test and improve useful AI systems. That requires more than access to open-source models. Teams also need compute, research infrastructure and sustainable ways to fund experimentation. In this op-ed for TheFutureEconomy.ca, Victor Valée, Co-Founder of Kusanagi Ventures, argues that open, competitive networks could give independent contributors another way to participate in AI development and give smaller economies such as Canada more opportunities to build rather than simply consume AI developed elsewhere. Read the full perspective on TheFutureEconomy.ca: thefutureeconomy.ca/op-eds/a… #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #CanadianInnovation #Innovation #FutureOfAI #OpenSourceAI #AIInfrastructure #TechPolicy #CanadianEconomy #EconomicGrowth

Today, we’re introducing Kusanagi: the Bittensor Growth Engine. We built Kusanagi to drive Bittensor’s real-world adoption, bring more capital into TAO & subnets, and give people better ways to participate in the network. MUV is becoming Kusanagi Validator, and this account will now cover the wider Kusanagi structure. @taoswap_org is a Kusanagi product, giving users one place to trade subnet tokens and explore the network. We work directly with subnet teams on strategy, communications and go-to-market so strong technical work can reach real customers. We’re also working toward a regulated vehicle that would let traditional investors gain exposure to TAO and subnet tokens. Kusanagi was founded by @Rapido_ai, @jtledore and @VictorVL_EN @Rapido_ai built Taoswap and Kusanagi Validator (formerly MUV), and now leads the technical development of both. @jtledore is a Strategy Partner at @PwC_France and drove the nine-month process that led to PwC’s alliance with Score/Manako. @VictorVL_EN leads comms at @opentensor and works with subnet teams on positioning, communications and branding. @MaxScore, founder of @webuildscore, is a close advisor to Kusanagi and brings deep experience as a subnet owner. Bittensor has no shortage of strong technical teams. The next phase is getting their work into the hands of real customers and building companies around it that can scale. We want to help drive that shift while making the network easier to access for users and investors. Our ambition is to push Bittensor far beyond its own ecosystem and into the industries that need what its teams are building.

.@404gen_ just launched Atlas, its AI workflow platform for 3D production. They already work with multiple AAA game studios like Square Enix. And Parralel's Colony goes live this month with real-time asset generation powered by Atlas. How Bittensor powers 404’s 3D stack:

Today, we’re officially launching OpenRoboto — Bittensor Subnet 80. We’re sharing the full vision: open weights, open data and open benchmarks, coordinated through Bittensor to continuously improve robotics models.

Introducing Root Reborn: a new market for optimizing TAO yield across Bittensor. Validators compete to build the best-performing subnet baskets. Successful strategies can attract more stake, so more root yield goes toward the subnets that create the most value.

.@bitmind just published a paper placing BitMind Forensics among the world’s top deepfake detection systems. It matched the best commercial image detector, beat the best commercial video detector, and outperformed top models on major benchmarks. Here’s the Bittensor edge: