# The cloud is the biggest impediment to AI

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-04-09
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** Interchain.fm Ep. 15 Akash: Taking on AWS with Decentralized Cloud Computing (Cosmos)
- **Watch at:** 00:33:18 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xlOVeUXd90&t=1998s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2021-04-09-the-cloud-is-the-biggest-impediment-to-ai-soht/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The cloud is the biggest impediment to AI," Interchain.fm Ep. 15 Akash: Taking on AWS with Decentralized Cloud Computing (Cosmos), 9 Apr 2021, 00:33:18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xlOVeUXd90&t=1998s

## Quote — verbatim

> The biggest impediment for AI right now is the cloud. It's really bad — Amazon, sorry. A\[ndreessen\] Horowitz came out with a report indicating that about 20 \[percent\] of the companies that do AI, their margins go to Amazon. It's ridiculously expensive.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Arguing that solving compute efficiency will make compute cost "second nature"; he adds ([00:33:59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xlOVeUXd90&t=2039s)) "once we can essentially unlock that... we're going to see a whole lot of new use cases that you can't imagine — that's the thing about future, you can't really picture it."