Bittensor subnets and io.net have been quietly adding Qwen and DeepSeek variants for months — this release pulls more frontier-tier inference away from closed US labs. Every decentralized inference network's unit economics break if the best open weights keep coming from Alibaba while OpenAI and Anthropic stay API-only. The crypto-AI thesis assumed American open-weight releases that increasingly aren't shipping.

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