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Welcome to the 22nd edition of the TAO Times, where we share weekly updates on all of the most important events occurring within the Bittensor ecosystem!

For validators, subnet owners, miners, token holders, & community members.

Here is what happened during the week of January 12th ↘️

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Highlights of the Week

🔥 Const announced that the Church of Rao, a new developer community led by Rhef, is launching to promote open-source development and decentralization of Bittensor, with consτ pledging $900,000 in funding over the next year to support this initiative.

🔥 SN40 has achieved industry-leading performance in text chunking, significantly outperforming competitors Unstructured and AI21 across all context limits. The results show particularly strong improvements at low context limits (50 tokens), with the subnet achieving 63.26% better F1-scores than Unstructured and 33.77% better than AI21, led by Miners 56 and 51.

🔥 Yuma Group has announced Subnet 55 (Precog), a collaboration with Coin Metrics to provide high-frequency Bitcoin price predictions every 5 minutes. The subnet will give miners access to institutional-grade crypto market data, aiming to set new standards for decentralized AI in financial intelligence.

🔥 In collaboration with Yuma Group, WeBuildScore launched Score Vision on SN44, a real-time football match analysis system that can process 30-second clips in 2.61 seconds with 84% accuracy, potentially offering a faster and more cost-effective solution for sports video annotation and computer vision analysis.

🔥 Carro demonstrated that Targon (SN4) is offering access to significant GPU computing power (8 H100 GPUs) at $250/week, which is far below the typical market rate of approximately $30,000 for equivalent computing power, with tokens included at no additional cost.

🔥 Our second TAO Times stream covering Bittensor agents, which featured Calanthia from Masa, Ken from BitMind, Shad from Infinite Games, and Phil from CreatorBid, amassed over 7,000 views and 23,000 impressions. In this conversation, we broke down how Bittensor-powered agents co-mingle with the outside crypto ecosystem, why CreatorBid has been a great partner for Bittensor subnets, and how these agents serve as a valuable distribution channel.

Ecosystem & Subnet Updates Below… ⬇️