In July, we expanded our products with our new AI Gaming Services vertical with the launch of AI Characters and followed it by making the developer repository public. Now teams of all sizes can use it. We did a lot more, too. Read all about it here: https://medium.com/theta-network/theta-roundup-july-2026-833641dcd27b

Channel
Theta Network Announcements
@thetanetwork_announcements
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
2,760subscribers
-40 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001297022466 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @thetanetwork_announcements |
| Created | Between 1 March 2018 and 31 July 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 19 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 14 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 19 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/thetanetwork_announcements |
Topic
Technology — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 15 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 95% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Sept 2026, 05:37 | 2,760 | -3 |
| 14 Sept 2026, 11:20 | 2,763 | -2 |
| 10 Sept 2026, 17:41 | 2,765 | -4 |
| 5 Sept 2026, 08:17 | 2,769 | -1 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 21:25 | 2,770 | -3 |
| 25 Aug 2026, 21:52 | 2,773 | -4 |
| 23 Aug 2026, 05:39 | 2,777 | -6 |
| 19 Aug 2026, 12:35 | 2,783 | -4 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 16:03 | 2,787 | -2 |
| 12 Aug 2026, 13:24 | 2,789 | -7 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 15:12 | 2,796 | -3 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 09:30 | 2,799 | -1 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 05:31 | 2,800 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 05:27 | 2,800 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 5 May 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 2 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 6 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
We are incredibly excited to share that GLM-5.2 is now available on Theta EdgeCloud. Z.ai's flagship model, released under a pure MIT licence, with a 1M token context built for hours-long, project-scale work. It stands as the highest-ranked open-source model across the board, landing within a point or two of Claude Opus 4.8 on demanding long-horizon coding benchmarks. GLM-5.2 was built to hold up across long, messy…
We've rebuilt the Theta EdgeCloud homepage! The main thing it does is make the platform more legible at a glance. GPU compute, inference endpoints, AI agents and the developer toolkit are all laid out in one place, with the hardware and the hourly rates alongside them, so you can see what you can run and what it costs before you sign up for anything. A lot of work went into this one and we're pleased with how it tur…
Not every AI workload needs a frontier-scale GPU. Theta EdgeCloud's distributed RTX fleet, alongside our AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips, is built for the inference, fine-tuning, and rendering the work most teams are actually shipping. Take our quiz to match your project to the right hardware. https://www.thetaedgecloud.com/rtx-gpu
Build AI characters that do more than talk. 🌠 With Theta EdgeCloud, developers can define personality, goals, knowledge and behavior, place characters in shared sessions, send them live game events, and receive contextual dialogue or structured gameplay decisions. Our public developer repository shows how it works through a real implementation, with local setup instructions, API reference material, provisioning scr…
We are stepping into gaming with something we are genuinely excited about, AI Characters. You design characters with real personalities and drop them straight into your game. 🎮 Give them a background, goals, and a voice, and set the world they live in so everything they say and do fits the story you are telling. 📖 We've been working for a long time on this so we're so excited to share this with you, and we cannot …
Theta Network just got stronger & more secure with ZAN joining as a strategic Enterprise Validator. 📈 They join Google, Samsung, Sony, Deutsche Telekom & more. Read more: https://medium.com/theta-network/zan-ant-digital-technologies-web3-brand-joins-theta-network-as-strategic-enterprise-validator-6afce272c821
Theta EdgeCloud has been experiencing record demand in recent weeks. 📈 Our ecosystem is designed to turn that into something meaningful for the whole network, not just a headline number. This piece explains the mechanics behind it. Read more: https://thetalabs.medium.com/why-edgecloud-drives-tfuel-and-theta-value-eceb02e67d77
36 research institutions worldwide now run AI research on Theta EdgeCloud, and the work is something we're proud of. KAIST, Yonsei, Imperial College London, Syracuse, and Soongsil University are among the labs using our network for everything from generative AI to causal inference to misinformation detection, finding the flexibility and price-to-performance that traditional cloud providers can't match on an academic…
We're proud to welcome Soongsil University — Korea's first modern university — as the 36th member of our academic research network. Led by Prof. Kunwoo Park, their HUMANE Lab uses large language models to tackle misinformation, bias, and fairness in AI. The results speak for themselves: 1st place at FEVER 2026, back-to-back 2nd place finishes in 2025 and 2024. Theta EdgeCloud is the decentralized compute network th…
Why are leading research labs choosing EdgeCloud? May gives a few answers. New partners across the UK and Middle East, published breakthroughs running on AWS Trainium, smarter agents and faster model serving. The work speaks for itself. Read more: https://medium.com/theta-network/theta-roundup-may-2026-4a63b4337ca1
Theta EdgeCloud has helped bring Arabic closer to being well-served by AI. Arabic is one of the world’s most spoken languages, yet remains underserved by AI due to its complex morphology and the significant compute required to build serious language models. We provided the compute behind peer-reviewed IEEE research from Cairo University on systems that can accurately read and summarise Arabic documents. With EdgeC…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @thetanetwork_announcements. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
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Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 19 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Theta Network Announcements” (@thetanetwork_announcements), 2,760 subscribers as measured 19 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/thetanetwork_announcements.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.