# Akash as the first open-source cloud

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-01-20
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Conversations with Jack ft Greg Osuri - S1E1 - by OmniFlix Network & Citizen Cosmos (OmniFlix Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:02:06 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21oNz5O1qzk&t=126s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-01-20-akash-as-the-first-open-source-cloud-jify/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash as the first open-source cloud," Conversations with Jack ft Greg Osuri - S1E1 - by OmniFlix Network & Citizen Cosmos (OmniFlix Network), 20 Jan 2021, 00:02:06. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21oNz5O1qzk&t=126s

## 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, 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 as the layer open source hadn't yet captured.