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AI Podcasts

April 2, 2025

The #1 SWE-Bench Verified Agent

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **#1 SWE-Bench Rank:** Augment's new agent tops the SWE-Bench verified charts using off-the-shelf models plus custom codebase understanding tech.
  2. **Enterprise & IDE Focus:** Augment targets developers in large, complex codebases, integrating directly into VS Code/JetBrains workflows rather than forcing new ones.
  3. **Pragmatic Model Strategy:** Leverages off-the-shelf models for rapid deployment now, anticipating potential custom model needs as agent usage and costs inevitably explode.
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March 31, 2025

Ep 37 — How AI Agents Will Reshape DeFi & Crypto Infrastructure with Ejaaz Ahamadeen

The DCo Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Agents are the Interface: Expect autonomous agents, not traditional apps, to become the dominant way users interact with both AI and crypto, abstracting away underlying complexity.
  2. Money Talks: The most successful near-term crypto AI agents will likely focus relentlessly on generating financial returns for users, tapping into crypto's core speculative drive via sophisticated, proprietary trading strategies.
  3. Build Real Products: Sustainable value comes from solving user problems with excellent UX and viable business models (potentially subscription-based initially), not just tokenomics. AI necessitates a shift from infrastructure hype to product-led growth.
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March 31, 2025

Ben Fielding: Gensyn’s Fueling an AI-Native Internet, Open vs. Closed Source AI and RL Swarm

Delphi Digital

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI scaling hits physical limits: Centralized hyperscalers face diminishing returns; the future needs horizontally scalable, decentralized compute enabled by protocols like Gensyn.
  2. The Internet gets personal (and probabilistic): Expect a shift from static databases to dynamic, parameter-based experiences, requiring ubiquitous, verified ML execution.
  3. Open beats closed (eventually): Open-source models and decentralized learning (like RL Swarm) will likely outpace closed systems by leveraging global compute and diverse data, mitigating centralized bias risks.
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March 28, 2025

The Agent Network — Dharmesh Shah, Agent.ai + CTO of HubSpot

Latent Space

AI

Key Takeaways:


1. Agents Evolve into Teammates: Shift perspective from agents as mere tools to digital collaborators within hybrid teams, requiring platforms like Agent.ai for discovery and interaction.


2. Engineer Pragmatically, Vibe Code: Lean towards under-engineering; AI reduces refactoring costs, making it cheaper to pay down tech debt later than to over-invest in unused abstractions now.


3. Unlock Networks with Standards & Memory: Prioritize building blocks like the mCP standard and tackle the critical challenge of secure, shared, cross-agent memory to enable true agent collaboration.

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March 28, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 103: 'It's AI' $TAO Subnet 32

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

AI

Key Takeaways:


1. Niche Focus Wins: Its AI demonstrates the power of specializing in one thing (AI text detection) within the BitTensor ecosystem, achieving leading accuracy and carving out a clear market position.


2. Ecosystem Arbitrage: There's a significant valuation gap between BitTensor AI projects (like Its AI or ReadyAI) and comparable VC-funded companies (GPTZero, Scale AI), suggesting potential upside once accessibility improves.


3. The Bridge is Coming: Easier access via wrapped tokens or user-friendly platforms bridging BitTensor to chains like Solana/Ethereum is the critical next step for unlocking subnet value and attracting mainstream capital.

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March 28, 2025

Subnet 3 Templar –World’s First Distributed, Permissionless, Incentivized Open Source AI Training

Opentensor Foundation

AI

Key Takeaways:


1.  Permissionless Works: Templar validates that truly open, decentralized AI training with economic incentives is not just theory—it's running, learning, and stabilizing *now*.
2.  Incentives Align: Token ownership fundamentally shifts dynamics, turning potential adversaries into collaborative builders invested in the network's success.
3.  The Future is Co-Owned: Templar paves the way for globally co-owned, state-of-the-art AI models, potentially outcompeting even the most well-funded centralized labs and offering a more equitable model for AI development.

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March 28, 2025

Novelty Search March 27, 2025

taostats

AI

Key Takeaways:


1.  Incentivized Decentralized Training Works: Templar demonstrates that coordinating anonymous miners globally via crypto-economic incentives to train a single AI model is feasible, moving beyond permissioned compute pools.
2.  Production is the Only True Test: Real-world deployment with adversarial miners is non-negotiable for building robust decentralized systems, revealing exploits impossible to find otherwise. Templar's rapid iteration (>200 runs) provides a significant edge.
3.  Community & Ownership are Superpowers: Openly sharing struggles and leveraging tokenomics to give miners ownership transformed Templar's development, aligning incentives and fostering collective problem-solving far exceeding a centralized team's capacity.

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March 24, 2025

Steffen Cruz and Will Squires: Macrocosmos, AI, APEX, Data, Bittensor Subnets 1 9 13 25 37 | Ep. 32

Ventura Labs

AI

Key Takeaways:

  1. The open-source AI landscape has rapidly evolved, with models like Deepseek and R1 significantly impacting the decentralized AI space.
  2. Macrocosmos focuses on building high-quality, feature-rich products that leverage the power of Bittensor's network and incentivize miner innovation.
  3. Long-term vision, community engagement, and sustainable monetization strategies are critical for success in the maturing Bittensor ecosystem.
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March 24, 2025

ARC Prize Version 2 Launch Video!

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI

Key Takeaways:

  1. ARC V2 represents a significant advancement in benchmarking AI reasoning capabilities, moving beyond the limitations of pre-trained language models.
  2. Efficiency, not just capability, is a critical aspect of intelligence, and ARC V2 effectively measures this efficiency gap between AI and humans.
  3. While O3 demonstrates early signs of fluid intelligence, it is not yet human-level and further breakthroughs are needed to achieve true AGI.
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Crypto Podcasts

December 26, 2025

2025 Year in Review

Bell Curve

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from "Infra-as-an-Asset" to "Infra-as-a-Service" means valuations will now track real cash flows rather than speculative multiples.
  2. Prioritize protocols that pivot to B2B strategies or vertical integration.
  3. The next 12 months will reward those who build for users rather than for the "crypto-native" echo chamber.
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December 26, 2025

Keith Singery & Garrett Oetken: TAO.com Wallet, Bittensor, TAO Flow, Governance, Subnets | Ep. 77

Ventura Labs

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Transition: Capital is migrating from passive staking to active participation in specific intelligence commodities.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Audit the founders behind subnets before swapping tokens.
  3. The Bottom Line: Bittensor is becoming a modular AI stack where the value lies in the integration of specialized subnets rather than isolated performance.
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December 26, 2025

2025 Crypto Year in Review, Part 1: Shit Talking Edition

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The industry is moving from speculative points to protocol revenue.
  2. Monitor L2 sequencer revenue models.
  3. 2025 is the year crypto stopped pretending and started building businesses.
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December 26, 2025

Our 2026 Crypto Predictions

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI capex cycle is the new North Star for crypto liquidity. If next-gen chips underdeliver, the risk-off contagion will hit crypto first.
  2. Accumulate blue-chip DeFi protocols like Aave or Morpho. These middlemen are better positioned to capture fintech integration than speculative L1s.
  3. 2026 is the year crypto stops selling potential and starts selling efficiency. Survival depends on being close to the customer.
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December 26, 2025

How To Fix Crypto's Token Dilemma

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Trend: The transition from passive liquidity to proactive, infrastructure-integrated market making.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Prioritize protocols that control the issuance layer rather than those just providing a venue for existing assets.
  3. The Bottom Line: Liquidity is a commodity, but distribution and issuance are the only durable moats in a high-speed SVM environment.
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December 26, 2025

Where Solana is Better Than Bitcoin & Ethereum

The DCo Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from "Store of Value" to "Medium of Utility." As networks mature, the market will value throughput and censorship resistance over simple supply caps.
  2. Allocate capital toward ecosystems with the highest developer activity and transaction density. Focus on chains building hardware-level censorship resistance rather than those just tweaking economic parameters.
  3. The next three years will prove that the most useful tool wins the money war. If Solana achieves its roadmap, its asset becomes the default unit of account for the digital economy.
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