Covenant AI объявила о выходе из сети Bittensor, заявляя, что их обещание децентрализации не соответствует действительности

Deep Tide TechFlow news, April 10th, Covenant AI founder Sam Dare published a statement revealing that Covenant AI has officially announced its withdrawal from the Bittensor network. Covenant AI previously completed the largest decentralized LLM pre-training project in history—Covenant-72B (72 billion parameters, involving over 70 independent contributors), which attracted the attention of NVIDIA CEO and was cited by the co-founder of Anthropic.

In the statement, Covenant AI accused that the actual control of the Bittensor network has long been concentrated in the hands of co-founder Jacob Steeves (Const), and the so-called “multi-signature governance” is merely a performance of decentralization, with real power never being dispersed. Recently, Jacob Steeves took a series of unilateral punitive actions against Covenant AI, including: suspending its subnet revenue, revoking its community channel management permissions, unilaterally abandoning its subnet infrastructure, and during the conflict, exerting economic pressure through large-scale token sell-offs.

Covenant AI stated that it cannot continue to raise funds, recruit talent, or gather resources from the community on a network whose “decentralization” promise can be overturned by a single person at any time. Its research results, team, and models will leave with the team, and new projects and related progress will be announced soon.