Akash is the first commercial implementation of the supercloud
Ask Akash - What is Akash's strategy going forward? (Akash Network)
“Data centers are great to get sovereignty but they’re not good to scale. That’s why Akash [has] the idea of a supercloud… where you can have a heterogeneous resource set and give a homogeneous layer that addresses all the functionality of the cloud, from deployment, scheduling, fault tolerance, observability to automation… Akash is the first commercial implementation of a supercloud.” — 00:07:59
Context: Cites the Cornell-coined “supercloud” term and Akash’s 2020 white paper; also claims ~25% of the Cosmos ecosystem used Akash in some form at the time.