First general-purpose decentralized compute network
"Keynote from Greg Osuri: \"Journey to Acceleration & Beyond\" - Akash Accelerate '24" (Akash Network)
“We launched the mainnet in 2020 — first time ever a decentralized network could launch general purpose compute. There was nothing like it. The only thing that was close to Akash was Golem, and Golem was not general purpose… Akash was the first general purpose compute [where] you can actually demonstrate a Docker container running in a decentralized setting… they call it the Airbnb for data centers, without the cleaning fee.” — 00:09:19
Context: Positioning claim about Akash’s place in decentralized-compute history.