# Akash as the first open-source cloud

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-01-19
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Citizen Cosmos and OmniFlix Network: Conversations with Jack ft. Greg Osuri Akash Network, S1E1 (Citizen Web3)
- **Watch at:** 00:02:07 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCRG5sAp_Sc&t=127s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-01-19-akash-as-the-first-open-source-cloud-nveu/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash as the first open-source cloud," Citizen Cosmos and OmniFlix Network: Conversations with Jack ft. Greg Osuri Akash Network, S1E1 (Citizen Web3), 19 Jan 2021, 00:02:07. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCRG5sAp_Sc&t=127s

## Quote — verbatim

> That gave way to really building a tool that can leverage Kubernetes and leverage the enormous amount of computing we have to build a second generation, new generation open source cloud — the first open source cloud — and that's really what Akash is.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His founding framing: cloud infrastructure was the one layer open source hadn't yet captured.