Full Name

Jacob Steeves

Job Title

Founder

Company

Bittensor

Speaker Bio

Jacob Robert Steeves is the co-founder of Bittensor, an open-source protocol supporting a decentralized machine-learning network built on blockchain technology. Jacob is now the CEO of Affine, a subnet on Bittensor that focuses on Reinforcement Learning research. Unlike AI platforms run by VCs and corporations, Bittensor follows Bitcoin’s approach to keep AI open source, accessible to all, and hard to coerce. The network connects and incentivizes global developers, researchers, and users to collaborate on numerous problems within the AI space.