# Fractionalized model ownership will kick-start a revolution

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-11-09
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Why Decentralized AI Needs Cosmos: Greg Osuri of Akash Explains (The Interop)
- **Watch at:** 00:29:09 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_gGBRqzxrQ&t=1749s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2024-11-09-fractionalized-model-ownership-will-kick-start-a-r-adxs/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Fractionalized model ownership will kick-start a revolution," Why Decentralized AI Needs Cosmos: Greg Osuri of Akash Explains (The Interop), 9 Nov 2024, 00:29:09. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_gGBRqzxrQ&t=1749s

## Quote — verbatim

> The challenge is how do you keep the weights private but keep the model open, and I think that's being solved. And once you solve that, now you have an incentive mechanism to incentivize ownership of a model, and I think that's going to kick-start a whole new revolution.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

On contributors earning a share of future inference revenue for funding compute — "inference is how you make money and training is how you invest"; he name-checks Bittensor as seeding model development in crypto.