# Decentralization lets competitors cooperate

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-02-16
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Interview with Greg Osuri of Akash Network (Web3 Working Group)
- **Watch at:** 00:36:05 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlFnp7eUw3M&t=2165s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2023-02-16-decentralization-lets-competitors-cooperate-3sj2/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Decentralization lets competitors cooperate," Interview with Greg Osuri of Akash Network (Web3 Working Group), 16 Feb 2023, 00:36:05. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlFnp7eUw3M&t=2165s

## Quote — verbatim

> There's no reason \[why\], if Twitter is doing AI, for them \[not\] to be able to sell their underutilized capacity to Facebook... and do so in a way that is decentralized and you don't require trust. So I think decentralization is an amazing way for competitors to cooperate.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

On capital-efficient AI: trustless marketplaces let rival companies monetize idle GPUs to each other.