2xnmore(@2xnmore):Bittensor's flagship conference was supposed to happen in San Francisco. It isn't anymore. Exploit Summit 2026 was set for March in the US. It got postponed and moved once it became clear that too many of the network's key speakers could not or would not travel into the country. So the whole thing relocated to Montreal. Sit with that for a second. A network built on sovereign, borderless, decentralised AI could not hold its own conference inside the US without losing too many of its voices. The venue change is the thesis. This is what sovereign AI looks like when it stops being a talking point and becomes a travel constraint. September 28 to 29. New City Gas, Montreal. ~1,000 builders, breakers and subnet teams. 100+ subnets have spent years building in isolation. AI agents, inference, reinforcement learning, computer vision, robotics, quantum, drug discovery. This is the first time the whole network stands in one room and defends its ideas out loud. The format is adversarial on purpose. Head to head debates, one voice per side, on the questions nobody in the ecosystem agrees on. Emissions. Incentive design. Open vs closed AI. Equity vs pure token models. No VIP rooms. No sponsor lounges. Everyone argues in the open. Here is who is shipping and worth tracking before the doors open: 1. Jacob Steeves, Bittensor cofounder, now running Affine, incentivised RL that pays for real task improvement 2. Rob Myers, Manifold Labs, Targon on Subnet 4, the network's first ever miner 3. Jon Durbin, core contributor to Chutes on Subnet 64, decentralised serverless compute 4. Micaela Bazo, Metanova Labs, NOVA on Subnet 68, the first decentralised drug discovery platform 5. Bob Wold, qBittensor Labs, quantum computing subnets 6. Rory, Zeus on Subnet 18, decentralised climate forecasting 7. Marcus Graichen, Taostats founder and one of the loudest voices in the community Then there is PitchTensor. ML teams pitch head to head, the audience helps judge, and the winners can advance toward a registered subnet slot with live crowdfund potential. You are not watching a demo. You are watching new subnets get born in real time, in front of the people who will mine them. This is not a room where people read slides and clap. This is where the network finds out which ideas survive contact with a crowd. The people who understand a subnet before it registers are never the ones who hear about it from the price. Are you watching TAO from the chart, or from the room?

2026.08.19 06:00

Bittensor's flagship conference was supposed to happen in San Francisco. It isn't anymore. Exploit Summit 2026 was set for March in the US. It got postponed and moved once it became clear that too many of the network's key speakers could not or would not travel into the country. So the whole thing relocated to Montreal. Sit with that for a second. A network built on sovereign, borderless, decentralised AI could not hold its own conference inside the US without losing too many of its voices. The venue change is the thesis. This is what sovereign AI looks like when it stops being a talking point and becomes a travel constraint. September 28 to 29. New City Gas, Montreal. ~1,000 builders, breakers and subnet teams. 100+ subnets have spent years building in isolation. AI agents, inference, reinforcement learning, computer vision, robotics, quantum, drug discovery. This is the first time the whole network stands in one room and defends its ideas out loud. The format is adversarial on purpose. Head to head debates, one voice per side, on the questions nobody in the ecosystem agrees on. Emissions. Incentive design. Open vs closed AI. Equity vs pure token models. No VIP rooms. No sponsor lounges. Everyone argues in the open. Here is who is shipping and worth tracking before the doors open: 1. Jacob Steeves, Bittensor cofounder, now running Affine, incentivised RL that pays for real task improvement 2. Rob Myers, Manifold Labs, Targon on Subnet 4, the network's first ever miner 3. Jon Durbin, core contributor to Chutes on Subnet 64, decentralised serverless compute 4. Micaela Bazo, Metanova Labs, NOVA on Subnet 68, the first decentralised drug discovery platform 5. Bob Wold, qBittensor Labs, quantum computing subnets 6. Rory, Zeus on Subnet 18, decentralised climate forecasting 7. Marcus Graichen, Taostats founder and one of the loudest voices in the community Then there is PitchTensor. ML teams pitch head to head, the audience helps judge, and the winners can advance toward a registered subnet slot with live crowdfund potential. You are not watching a demo. You are watching new subnets get born in real time, in front of the people who will mine them. This is not a room where people read slides and clap. This is where the network finds out which ideas survive contact with a crowd. The people who understand a subnet before it registers are never the ones who hear about it from the price. Are you watching TAO from the chart, or from the room?

2xnmore@2xnmore

2026.08.18 06:00

Bittensor is about to put every subnet it has ever argued about in one room. 100+ subnets have spent years building in isolation. AI agents, inference, reinforcement learning, computer vision, robotics, quantum, drug discovery. None of them have shared a physical stage until now. Exploit Summit 2026 is the first time the whole network shows up in one place to defend its ideas out loud. September 28 to 29. New City Gas, Montreal. ~1,000 builders, breakers and subnet teams. The format is adversarial on purpose. Head to head debates, one voice per side, on the questions nobody in the ecosystem actually agrees on. Emissions. Incentive design. Open vs closed AI. Equity vs pure token models. No VIP rooms. No sponsor lounges. Everyone argues in the open. Here is who is shipping and worth tracking before the doors open: 1. Jacob Steeves, Bittensor co-founder, now running Affine, incentivised RL that pays for real task improvement 2. Rob Myers, Manifold Labs, Targon on Subnet 4, the network's first ever miner 3. Jon Durbin, core contributor to Chutes on Subnet 64, decentralised serverless compute 4. Micaela Bazo, Metanova Labs, NOVA on Subnet 68, the first decentralised drug discovery platform 5. Bob Wold, qBittensor Labs, quantum computing subnets 6. Rory, Zeus on Subnet 18, decentralised climate forecasting 7. Max Sebti, Score, computer vision 8. Marcus Graichen, Taostats founder and one of the loudest voices in the community This is not a room where people read slides and clap. This is where the network finds out which ideas survive contact with a crowd. The people who understand a subnet before it registers are never the ones who hear about it from the price. Are you watching TAO from the chart, or from the room?

151

Forward to community