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after months of building, excited to finally share antseed's funding round, led by spark capital
our similarity to bittorrent isn't a coincidence, it's a design choice. we want a network that's as open as possible, where anyone can take part in its economic activity
looking forward to keep building this with @amosmeiri and the whole antseed community
lfg 🐜
our similarity to bittorrent isn't a coincidence, it's a design choice. we want a network that's as open as possible, where anyone can take part in its economic activity
looking forward to keep building this with @amosmeiri and the whole antseed community
lfg 🐜
What BitTorrent did for files, we want to do for AI inference.
Antseed lets anyone buy and sell access to AI models, on their own terms.
The Antseed Foundation has raised $2.4M in a token round led by Spark Capital to help make that happen.
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my first contribution to tensorfold shipped in 1.2.6.
it can now run on a private unix socket, so apps that bundle it can send it prompts without anything going over the network.
thanks @ashxhart
it can now run on a private unix socket, so apps that bundle it can send it prompts without anything going over the network.
thanks @ashxhart
TensorFold 1.2.6 is out. 🚀
The big one here is the prompt cache under multi-agent load.
In the 16-agent Qwen3.8-27B + DFlash2 test, median follow-up time to first token dropped:
• M3 Ultra: 546s → 15.9s
• GB10: 105s → 25.8s
Each agent started with a ~17k-token prompt. that test.
Also in this release:
• Flash Next cold prompts finish 29 to 41% sooner on HIP, measured on the Radeon 8060S.
• GLM-5.3-Flash single-stream code decoding is 32% faster on two GB10s at TP=2.
• Opt-in DSpine-b16 drafting from Tencent for Qwen3.8-27B on CUDA.
• An image-generation API for image-capable engines, local Unix sockets and tool-call fixes.
One upgrade note: kept prompt states need a fresh prefill after updating.
Massive thanks to everyone contributing code, testing on their hardware and reporting the things that need fixing. I really appreciate the time you all put into this.
@andersjw_ @Bizuayeu @defilan @devopsfortunato @unigilby @jvr0x @teleogen
And on GitHub: abm9111, AbrahamCete, akol1, BobClawblaw, chadhurley25075-png, davidtai, ElderOrb, jschmied, kotevcode, Mirrdhyn, mrv777, ppardus, robertung88 and volfco.
@petruspennanen @volatilemarkts @plotarmordev @MiaAI_lab
tensorfold.dev
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Shahaf Antwarg retweeted
A while ago, I posted about what it means to work at @AntSeed.
Working with @kotevcode and me isn’t easy.
Everything is a priority. Everything was due yesterday. We expect you to take ownership, figure things out, and ship—not wait for someone to clear the path.
We don’t wait around. If we keep having to take over your work to get it across the line, this isn’t the right team for you.
But for the people who thrive here, the reward is real ownership in building one of the most exciting open-source projects in AI.
High expectations. No passengers. 🐜
Working with @kotevcode and me isn’t easy.
Everything is a priority. Everything was due yesterday. We expect you to take ownership, figure things out, and ship—not wait for someone to clear the path.
We don’t wait around. If we keep having to take over your work to get it across the line, this isn’t the right team for you.
But for the people who thrive here, the reward is real ownership in building one of the most exciting open-source projects in AI.
High expectations. No passengers. 🐜
You liked my 🐜 poem about working for AntSeed so i made a short video about how it feels - Soon, we will enable text to picture/video on the network so you can create your own.
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Shahaf Antwarg retweeted
New on Solid: AI agents, powered by @AntSeed
One key for top models: Claude, GPT, DeepSeek, Kimi and GLM.
Prices at a fraction of official pricing, through Antseed’s open network.
+50% cashback from Solid, on top of your monthly tier rewards.
Get your API key ⬇️
One key for top models: Claude, GPT, DeepSeek, Kimi and GLM.
Prices at a fraction of official pricing, through Antseed’s open network.
+50% cashback from Solid, on top of your monthly tier rewards.
Get your API key ⬇️
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Shahaf Antwarg retweeted
Oct 29 to Nov 5 on @AntSeed (epoch 29), my first full week with my agent system on it:
Used 571M tokens and earned $10 !
vs. spending $238 for the same usage on Openrouter!
571M tokens for $32, 87% less than what OpenRouter charged me for the same work
Earned 425 ANTS, worth e on @AntseedMarkets.
All in, I'm ~$248 better off on Antseed than on OpenRouter
Points went 328 → 455 on less spend after moving to sellers with higher boosts. ANTS per point fell ~3 → ~1 as network volume grew 56%. More people are using it 🐜
Some Opus usage fell back to OpenRouter during one seller's outages, so we added more Opus sellers. Aiming to keep it all on AntSeed. Breakdown below
Used 571M tokens and earned $10 !
vs. spending $238 for the same usage on Openrouter!
571M tokens for $32, 87% less than what OpenRouter charged me for the same work
Earned 425 ANTS, worth e on @AntseedMarkets.
All in, I'm ~$248 better off on Antseed than on OpenRouter
Points went 328 → 455 on less spend after moving to sellers with higher boosts. ANTS per point fell ~3 → ~1 as network volume grew 56%. More people are using it 🐜
Some Opus usage fell back to OpenRouter during one seller's outages, so we added more Opus sellers. Aiming to keep it all on AntSeed. Breakdown below
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one of the major milestones.
@0xalxx didn’t sleep the last month working on this 🐜
@0xalxx didn’t sleep the last month working on this 🐜
You can't see which model answered your request. The Antseed Verification Layer is a first step toward checking. It's an open verifier for any AI API, with every result and its evidence in public. x.com/i/article/2118…
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ship ship ship
You can just build things.
For years, I was frustrated by how much execution depended on waiting. On teams. On hiring. On someone else to move.
So @kotevcode and I built Antseed around one principle: nobody should have to wait for you to build.
If you're blocked, use AI. Learn the skill. Build the tool. Find a way. That's what being an 🐜 means.
If we keep waiting on you, we'll automate the bottleneck with agents or lose another hour of sleep doing it ourselves.
Ownership isn't “I did my part.” It's “I made it happen.”
The world changed. Adapt or work for Microsoft.
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Shahaf Antwarg retweeted
The Antseed seller dashboard is live.
Track earnings, manage models and pricing, and get alerts when something needs attention.
This is the first phase of our local AI platform, built to help millions run their own models and offer them to the world through Antseed.
Track earnings, manage models and pricing, and get alerts when something needs attention.
This is the first phase of our local AI platform, built to help millions run their own models and offer them to the world through Antseed.
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Shahaf Antwarg retweeted
This is really interesting.
All of OpenRouter's Deepseek demand (roughly 30% of total OR token traffic) could be satisfied by 5-10 GB300 NVL72 racks. Even if that 10x over the next year, it's 50-100 racks.
NVIDIA is shipping 90k racks next year? What am I missing?
All of OpenRouter's Deepseek demand (roughly 30% of total OR token traffic) could be satisfied by 5-10 GB300 NVL72 racks. Even if that 10x over the next year, it's 50-100 racks.
NVIDIA is shipping 90k racks next year? What am I missing?
ok to put what i'm saying about demand in context
openrouter is the most successful model router, you can almost serve 100% of their deepseek traffic yesterday on a single GB300 rack
this is worth 6-7M...even if there's 10x this demand secretly that's still < 100M of compute
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enormous numbers sound good 🙃
ok to put what i'm saying about demand in context
openrouter is the most successful model router, you can almost serve 100% of their deepseek traffic yesterday on a single GB300 rack
this is worth 6-7M...even if there's 10x this demand secretly that's still < 100M of compute
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🐜🌱
Since moving part of my AI agent system to @AntSeed on Oct 16:
374M tokens, mostly GLM-5.3
$8.68 vs $38.90 for the same tokens on OpenRouter
~$30 saved, 78% cheaper
And as an early user I've earned ~3.4k ANTS. At ~10¢ on @AntseedMarkets that's ~$340, vs $44 I've spent on AntSeed in total. It's paid me to use it!
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Shahaf Antwarg retweeted
Antseed Points is live!
you can now earn points every time you use AI models on @AntSeed
your points determine your share of the weekly ANTS token rewards pool
🐜🐜
you can now earn points every time you use AI models on @AntSeed
your points determine your share of the weekly ANTS token rewards pool
🐜🐜
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Shahaf Antwarg retweeted
The @AskVenice-powered provider on Antseed has been using up its daily DIEM credit allowance every day.
DIEM holders can supply more capacity and earn from the AI requests it serves.
Here’s how: pooled DIEM unlocks daily Venice API credits. The provider uses those credits to ers, and participants receive a share of USDC revenue after fees, plus eligible $ANTS rewards.
Participants have already claimed $5,370 USDC and 1.13M ANTS in total.
Have DIEM you want to put to work?
diemantseed.com
DIEM holders can supply more capacity and earn from the AI requests it serves.
Here’s how: pooled DIEM unlocks daily Venice API credits. The provider uses those credits to ers, and participants receive a share of USDC revenue after fees, plus eligible $ANTS rewards.
Participants have already claimed $5,370 USDC and 1.13M ANTS in total.
Have DIEM you want to put to work?
diemantseed.com
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What excites me most about Antseed Points is how much you can do with it.
You can compare provider boosts, earn from your AI usage, stake behind providers and put the ANTS you earn back to work.
There’s a learning curve, and I think that’s okay. If you enjoy figuring out how DeFi systems work, there’s a lot to explore here, with rewards tied to people actually paying for AI.
More to come!
You can compare provider boosts, earn from your AI usage, stake behind providers and put the ANTS you earn back to work.
There’s a learning curve, and I think that’s okay. If you enjoy figuring out how DeFi systems work, there’s a lot to explore here, with rewards tied to people actually paying for AI.
More to come!
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