Akash is the first commercial implementation of a supercloud
Akash Weekly - October 28th 2022 (Akash Network)
“Data centers are great to get sovereignty, but they’re not good to scale… [a layer that] gives you a homogeneous way to [run the cloud] on a heterogeneous resource set — that is a supercloud, and Akash is the first commercial implementation of a supercloud… The cloud evolved — how you think about cloud in a modern sense is not how you thought about cloud in the web2 sense.” — 00:57:37
Context: Closing the AMA on long-term strategy; credits Cornell’s 2016 supercloud concept and cites Hey.com/Dropbox-style cloud exits as the demand driver.