# DeFi and machine learning first, enterprise later (the S3 playbook)

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2020-12-10
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** "The Akashian Challenge Livestream: Phase 3 Week 1" (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 01:07:44 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x1ct2eC_Nw&t=4064s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2020-12-10-defi-and-machine-learning-first-enterprise-later-t-frdf/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "DeFi and machine learning first, enterprise later (the S3 playbook)," "The Akashian Challenge Livestream: Phase 3 Week 1" (Akash Network), 10 Dec 2020, 01:07:44. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x1ct2eC_Nw&t=4064s

## Quote — verbatim

> Amazon Web Services, the behemoth, started off offering one product and that is archival storage — S3... what they had is an incredibly valuable product that nobody was building, and a market for it. Our product is an unstoppable low cost high quality cloud that nobody is building, and we're serving an underserved market which is the DeFi and machine learning.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Asked about enterprise compliance (GDPR/ISO); he says compliance comes "eventually," but ML users switch immediately for 50% cloud savings — an early (Dec 2020) bet on ML as Akash's core demand.