# Akash runs 15,000 models; Render runs one

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-06-15
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** RNDR, Supercloud, 1.5T AI Market Cap – Interview with Greg Osuri about Akash (Design DAO)
- **Watch at:** 00:48:21 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCHnfFIavA8&t=2901s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2023-06-15-akash-runs-15-000-models-render-runs-one-r32u/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash runs 15,000 models; Render runs one," RNDR, Supercloud, 1.5T AI Market Cap – Interview with Greg Osuri about Akash (Design DAO), 15 Jun 2023, 00:48:21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCHnfFIavA8&t=2901s

## Quote — verbatim

> Their community just celebrates stable diffusion and... render entering the AI era, where in reality Render can run one model; Akash can run about 15,000 models on Hugging Face — any model on Hugging Face you can run on Akash.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Contrarian critique of RNDR as closed-source SaaS hosted on centralized clouds marketing itself as decentralized; he says calling this out got him blocked from their Telegram.