# Akash is the first implementation of an open source supercloud

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-09-10
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Decentralized solutions for cloud computing and AI 📌 Greg Osuri, Akash @ DePIN Day Austin (Fluence)
- **Watch at:** 00:04:22 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g9vJCIV1lo&t=262s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2024-09-10-akash-is-the-first-implementation-of-an-open-sourc-aw7u/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash is the first implementation of an open source supercloud," Decentralized solutions for cloud computing and AI 📌 Greg Osuri, Akash @ DePIN Day Austin (Fluence), 10 Sept 2024, 00:04:22. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g9vJCIV1lo&t=262s

## Quote — verbatim

> The white paper we wrote in 2017, 2018... introduced the notion of a supercloud. Supercloud, the term was coined by Cornell in 2015, but we implemented the supercloud. So Akash is the first implementation of an open source supercloud.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Historical claim anchoring the supercloud framing; the same white paper targeted machine learning as the primary workload years before the GPU crunch.