Templar (SN3) Completes Pre-Training of Covenant72B, the Largest Fully Decentralized LLM to Date

Templar, Bittensor Subnet 3, has completed pre-training for Covenant72B, a 72-billion-parameter language model. This is the largest frontier-scale model ever trained in a fully permissionless and decentralized setting. The run was coordinated across a global network of independent GPUs with no central datacenter, no single owner, and no gatekeeping. Pre-training processed roughly 1.2 trillion tokens,…

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Templar and Gradients Deliver Covenant72B Production-Ready DeAI Model

For a long time, “open-source AI” has meant something very specific. The weights are public, but everything that matters happens elsewhere. Training decisions, data pipelines, and refinement processes remain locked inside centralized teams and private infrastructure. Covenant72B challenges that model. Through a coordinated but fully decentralized collaboration between Templar (Subnet 3) and Gradients (Subnet 56),…

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Covenant AI Updates Community Live from NeurIPS Conference, Covers Covenant 72B Preview and Basilica Relaunch

SUMMARY: Covenant Labs delivered the 17th episode of TGIF at the NeurIPS conference in San Diego, highlighting major progress across Templar, Basilica and the broader Covenant 72B initiative. The brief emphasized how Templar unlocks decentralized pre-training at a scale traditionally reserved for hyperscalers, earning strong interest from researchers and industry partners.  Basilica’s relaunch also introduces…

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Covenant Labs Shares Progressive Reports on Community Meet

SUMMARY: In a TGIF community brief held on October 24, Covenant Labs shared major progress across their full AI pipeline on Bittensor.  Templar continues to lead decentralized pretraining, outperforming centralized baselines and scaling the largest live distributed model.  Grail is now showing successful post training results on mainnet, while Basilica prepares a shift to real…

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Bittensor Enters Academic Spotlight with Templar’s NeurIPS Paper

For the first time, research from the Bittensor ecosystem has been recognized at the prestigious Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025 conference—one of the world’s leading venues in machine learning. Covenant AI, known for pioneering decentralized training through the Templar, Basilica and Grail subnets on Bittensor, built its NeurIPS papers on concepts already proven in…

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Templar Makes History with the World’s First 70B Decentralized Training Run

Templar, Subnet 3 on Bittensor, has officially launched the first-ever decentralized training run of a 70 billion parameter AI model, a milestone that redefines what is possible outside the walls of Big Tech. Templar is a decentralized AI training system that connects computers worldwide to collaboratively train models. It rewards contributors for providing computing power…

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Bittensor: The Next Evolution in Decentralized AI and Incentivized Intelligence

By: Jay “The Tao Diciple” In the second episode of “The TAO Pod,” recorded on July 15, 2025, hosts James Altucher and Bittensor expert JJ explore the transformative potential of Bittensor (TAO), a decentralized protocol revolutionizing AI through incentivized commodities. As TAO trades around $340 as of September 2025, with its first halving approaching in…

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