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Today’s show:
What do drug discovery, the creator economy, and AI vision models have in common? In the case of Metanova, Bitcast, and Score, the answer is Bittensor. Yes, each of the three companies leverages the Bittensor network to get more work done, more quickly, in a completely decentralized fashion.
Metanova uses its subnet to run developer competitions to find exciting molecular candidates, parsing through a mountain of possibilities to pluck out the most promising for further investigation.
Bitcast uses its subnet to collect visibility demand from brands, which is served by video creators. The company is focused on the crypto niche to start, but will expand in time to other technology topics.
Score uses its subnet to generate highly performant, specialized vision models, which it then sells to customers through a platform (Manako).
In each case, the Bittensor’s economic engine unlocks global creativity to tackle tasks that were previously time-consuming, fragmented, or expensive to complete. Let’s see how quickly each company can scale and whether startups building on Bittensor can grow faster than their non-decentralized peers.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:19 Plaud: If your work depends on conversations — interviews, meetings, calls — you need a Plaud NotePin. You can check it out at https://Plaud.ai/twist and use code TWIST for 10% off!
3:40 What is Bittensor?
7:22 Metanova Labs joins the show
9:28 Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist
17:16 How Metanova tackles the multi-billion dollar cost of drug discovery
20:48 Every.io - For all of your incorporation, banking, payroll, benefits, accounting, taxes or other back-office administration needs, visit https://every.io
30:20 Bitcast joins the show
31:23 Luma AI - Luma builds accessible, professional-grade AI tools for creatives. Try Luma Agents for free at https://lumalabs.ai/twist
32:30 Mining crypto with YouTube
36:48 Why Bitcast is focused on the crypto space to start
39:11 How healthy is the creator economy?
47:26 When will the AI bubble collapse?
53:44 Score joins the show
54:42 How Score will make vision AI more accessible
57:16 VLMs v. LLMs
1:01:14 Demo of the Manako platform
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