Washington policymakers already know Akash as DePIN-meets-AI
"Greg Osuri | Founder of Akash Network: Liberty, Community, and the Future of Decentralized AI" (Beacon Podcast)
“I was on Capitol Hill earlier this week. I met with four senators, four congressmen on the AI caucus, and as well as the chair of the Financial Committee and the Commerce and Energy Committee… I was actually surprised that how many of them knew about [Akash]. One of the lead staffers of the Commerce Committee was like, yeah, [Akash] was like an intersection between [DePIN] and AI… We’re talking about the people that write policy.” — 00:45:42
Context: On how much policy/politics work Web3 founders must do (third of his three Web2-vs-Web3 founder differences); quote spans into the 00:46:22 block, where Whisper mishears “Akash” as “Apache” and “DePIN” as “deep end” (bracketed fixes). At 00:47:02 he adds he lobbies for decentralization “because the Sam Alphans [Altmans] of the world are going and debating that AI should be closed.”