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Covenant AI Departs Bittensor, Accuses Founder of Centralized Control
Covenant AI, the team behind Covenant-72B (the largest decentralized LLM pre-training run on record, spanning 70+ contributors on commodity hardware and acknowledged by Nvidia's CEO and Anthropic's co-founder), announced its departure from Bittensor after accusing founder Jacob Steeves of suspending subnet emissions, unilaterally deprecating infrastructure, and timing large TAO sells to periods of operational conflict. The statement labels Bittensor's triumvirate governance structure "decentralization theatre," arguing Steeves retains effective unilateral control while resisting meaningful authority transfer.
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