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Bittensor’s TAO Climbs as Jensen Huang Validates Decentralized AI, Covenant‑72B Confirmed

Investors reacted to podcast remarks highlighting a 72‑billion‑parameter model trained across 70+ contributors.

Overview

  • TAO gained more than 15% on the week, trading around $289–$298 after briefly touching about $311 following the podcast.
  • OpenTensor and a March 2026 arXiv paper confirm Covenant‑72B as a 72‑billion‑parameter LLM with a 67.1 MMLU score, representing the largest decentralized pre‑training run to date.
  • On-chain data show daily volume peaking at $677.06 million, while futures open interest reached about $361.15 million, both at multi‑month highs.
  • Jensen Huang characterized proprietary and open-source models as complementary and likened the decentralized effort to a modern Folding@home.
  • Grayscale filed to convert its Bittensor Trust into a spot ETF, with the trust’s premium viewed as a sign of growing institutional interest.