# Tokenized model ownership with royalties

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-01-31
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** DeepSeek and the Dominance of Open Source AI \| Akash & Prime Intellect: Mined with CoinFund Ep. 19 (CoinFund)
- **Watch at:** 00:40:34 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb-XhauNLNE&t=2434s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2025-01-31-tokenized-model-ownership-with-royalties-4skz/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Tokenized model ownership with royalties," DeepSeek and the Dominance of Open Source AI \| Akash & Prime Intellect: Mined with CoinFund Ep. 19 (CoinFund), 31 Jan 2025, 00:40:34. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb-XhauNLNE&t=2434s

## Quote — verbatim

> Having to own a piece of... \[an\] actual model and getting royalties when people use it, I think, is going to be a big shared ownership model the world has never seen before.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

On closed-weights/open-model tokenization experiments; he argues crypto is the only way most people get financial exposure to frontier AI.