Decentralized AI
5 statements · 2022–2022
Private deployments, enclaves, and ML on Akash GPUs
Akash Weekly - October 19th 2022 (Akash Network)
“With interchain accounts, a Secret account can directly deploy [on] Akash without needing an Akash account… adding privacy to deployments has been a thing that I always wanted. And with Akash eventually supporting secure enclaves in the future, you’re going to be able to run Secret nodes as well on Akash… and the GPUs — you can imagine Secret deployments that can do machine learning. You get into all kinds of possibilities.” — Greg Osuri, 00:41:30
Context: Envisioning privacy-preserving compute (Secret 2.0 homomorphic encryption had been raised by the guest) combined with Akash’s upcoming GPU support; transcript garbles some words (“check your enclaves”).
Web3 and generative AI will converge
Akash Weekly - November 2nd 2022 (Akash Network)
“Based on trends that are happening in terms of content creation, there’s going to be a convergence of web3 and generative AI, and we want to empower that merger… having this space as a first class citizen is going to be a big win in the coming months to a year.” — Greg Osuri, 00:37:47
Context: Notes investment flowing into generative AI and web3 use cases like AI-generated NFT collections.
AI is the future of humanity — few companies can't control its supply
Akash Weekly - November 9th 2022 (Akash Network)
“GPUs and AI, which I totally believe is the future of humanity… it’s going to come by storm… in my life I use AI so much that it’s only increasing my usage of AI. So when you have such an important element of our humanity, we can’t let few companies control their supply… that’s where democratization becomes a lot more obvious… I’m hyper bullish with GPUs on Akash… this is only going to get bigger and bigger.” — Greg Osuri, 00:41:41
Context: November 2022 (pre-ChatGPT-boom) argument that GPU workloads are ephemeral and privacy-light, making them ideal for a decentralized marketplace; quote begins at the end of the [00:40:57] block.
Lots of value exchanged on Akash from ML in the very short future
Akash Weekly - November 16th 2022 (Akash Network)
“There’s going to be quite a lot of value that will be exchanged in Akash in a very very short future… a simple workload on machine learning costs about 30 to 40,000.” — Greg Osuri, 00:06:30
Context: Update segment on Economics 2.0; ML workloads’ high cost is the argument for boosting AKT-secured network safety before GPU adoption.
AI x generative art: whole NFT series in hours, art commoditized by GPUs
Dcentral 2022 - DeCloud - Decentralized Cloud & Storage (Akash Network)
“You can generate a whole NFT series in a matter of hours using AI. So I think you’re going to see evolution in terms of NFTs and how AI is going to influence that, when you have art pretty much a commodity here with GPUs at this point.” — Greg Osuri, 00:28:42
Context: Lightning-round trend pick (December 2022, pre-mainstream generative AI wave); he teases upcoming Akash support for generative workloads.