Covenant-72B: Bittensor's OpenTensor Network Completes Largest Decentralized LLM Pre-Training Run in History

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OpenTensor announced Covenant-72B, a 72-billion parameter model trained entirely across the Bittensor decentralized network, claiming it as the largest decentralized LLM pre-training run ever completed. The milestone demonstrates that distributed, incentive-aligned compute networks can now compete on model scale with centralized hyperscaler training runs, a significant proof point for the decentralized AI infrastructure thesis. Technical details and benchmark results were not immediately available at announcement.