# Akash is the only functional supercloud

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-10-28
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** 1on1 Greg Osuri - Akash (Jerry V Hall)
- **Watch at:** 00:22:00 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubYh3RfdQHA&t=1320s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2023-10-28-akash-is-the-only-functional-supercloud-6hue/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash is the only functional supercloud," 1on1 Greg Osuri - Akash (Jerry V Hall), 28 Oct 2023, 00:22:00. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubYh3RfdQHA&t=1320s

## Quote — verbatim

> We essentially theorized this supercloud idea in 2018 in a white paper called Akash Network... we were the first ones to even introduce the idea what a functional supercloud would look like, and Akash I believe is the only supercloud as far as I know.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Traces "supercloud" to Cornell: reduce providers to mere resource providers and lift orchestration, fault tolerance, access control and observability into an open-source higher control plane; now verticalized as the "AI supercloud."