# Akash is the world's first decentralized supercloud, 80% cheaper, used by Nvidia

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-10-15
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Key Challenges in Building Decentralized AI Infrastructure \| AI / ALL Summit (Sahara AI)
- **Watch at:** 00:01:26 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z6pynSNjmw&t=86s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2024-10-15-akash-is-the-world-s-first-decentralized-superclou-slzz/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash is the world's first decentralized supercloud, 80% cheaper, used by Nvidia," Key Challenges in Building Decentralized AI Infrastructure \| AI / ALL Summit (Sahara AI), 15 Oct 2024, 00:01:26. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z6pynSNjmw&t=86s

## Quote — verbatim

> Akash is the world's first decentralized supercloud. Supercloud, like the name suggests, is a cloud that federates any cloud-capable compute bit, a private or public cluster... where users can effectively access compute using a marketplace mechanism at significantly lower cost, usually 80% cheaper than what you would normally otherwise pay on traditional cloud... one of the biggest users for Akash is Nvidia, and Akash is directly integrated into Nvidia products.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Greg's self-introduction; "supercloud" is his recurring framing for federating the world's idle compute. Quote begins at the end of the prior caption block.