# Compute-for-token model guarantees future inference revenue

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-08-02
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Solving the AI energy crisis \| Greg Osuri on what it takes to power AI (Changelog)
- **Watch at:** 01:06:10 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61OOQfY5cqU&t=3970s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2025-08-02-compute-for-token-model-guarantees-future-inferenc-glxu/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Compute-for-token model guarantees future inference revenue," Solving the AI energy crisis \| Greg Osuri on what it takes to power AI (Changelog), 2 Aug 2025, 01:06:10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61OOQfY5cqU&t=3970s

## Quote — verbatim

> The business model for distributed training — almost all of the models I've looked at — the common thing they have is you contribute compute, you get some representation of that contribution in form of a token, and that token will guarantee you future revenues from the model, from inference.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Explaining why decentralized training needs a token; he notes a 5090 on Akash earns ~92 cents/hour today and predicts intermediaries will take token risk before consumers do.