Does open-source AGI need a token? "Not yet" — but Bittensor's emissions fund open AI
Evolution to AGI Panel at Web3_AI Day | Encode Club | Linera, Ritual, Nillion, Akash Network (Linera: Real-Time Blockchain)
“Does it need a token? I don’t think so, not yet… Bittensor is doing interesting work — Bittensor emissions are like billions of dollars per year, right? So those incentives are going to amazing folks that are doing open source AI and giving them a monetization mechanism.” — 00:15:09
Context: Also name-checks Nous Research’s decentralized training work; declines to pick a single winner because “too much work is happening.”