OAPN

Live from OpenAgents Headquarters in Austin, Texas Car talks with guests at the TEMS afterparty after The Energy and Mining Summit. We talk with guests about energy, Bitcoin mining, AI compute, Austin’s builder scene, and where the next wave of infrastructure is headed. The night continued from the summit to the OpenAgents Studio, with open conversations and high-signal afterparty energy. This is...

Ocean Power: Oceanic Phase Three | OAPN #8 In OAPN #8, we preview the oceanic Phase Three of the OpenAgents compute network in conversation with Ben Silone. This episode explores what ocean-based infrastructure could mean for the future of compute, energy, and machine work. We discuss what we admire and question about Panthalassa’s floating datacenter vision, revisit the Bitcoin Magazine thesis th...

OAPN #7: Worse is Better In this episode, recorded from the new OpenAgents headquarters in downtown Austin, we discuss the two competing design philosophies of software: the New Jersey school and the MIT/Stanford school, and how those philosophies map onto the AI landscape today. We get into why the “Worse is Better” tradition matters, why simple systems with strong distribution often beat more el...

Developer Bounties In this episode, we relaunch the OpenAgents bitcoin bounty program, paying developers for high-quality additions across our codebases. We also walk through the broader product roadmap and explain how OpenAgents is thinking about the next phase of the stack. The goal is ambitious and clear: build the OpenAgents product suite into a real open alternative to what the big labs offer...

In OAPN #5, we introduce the basics of distributed language model training. Using educational material from Nathan Lambert’s RLHF Course and Stanford’s CS336, we walk through the foundations of conventional model training and explain the core concepts in a way that connects directly to what OpenAgents is building. We then introduce DiLoCo, or Distributed Low-Communication Training, and discuss how...

OAPN #4: Pay the PeopleIn this episode, we discuss what we believe is the only real answer to AI job losses, lab fear mongering, and the concentration of power around machine intelligence:Pay the people. Preferably in bitcoin. We revisit the promises made during the early agent era, including the claim that revenue sharing with developers mattered, and ask the obvious question: why have the major...

In OAPN #3, we recap the latest Bittensor drama around Covenant and the collapse of Templar’s position in the network. Some of that distributed training talent has since joined OpenAgents, helping drive the next phase of growth for the Pylon network. Thank you and welcome. In this episode, we cover Pylon’s recent growth spurt, how compute mining works, next week’s distributed training run paying c...

In this episode, we launch Pylon, OpenAgents’ compute miner node software that enables anyone in the world to sell spare compute for bitcoin in a permissionless open marketplace. Recorded with a live studio audience at PlebLab, this episode shows people successfully joining the Pylon network and earning bitcoin in real time. We also talk through the larger OpenAgents vision for open compute market...

In this episode, we launch OAPN: the OpenAgents Propaganda Network. This inaugural podcast covers the media, regulatory, and infrastructure battles shaping the future of AI. We discuss why OpenAI acquired TBPN, the push toward regulatory capture, and why OpenAgents believes the next phase of AI should be built on open protocols, open markets, and bitcoin-denominated incentives instead of further c...