First foundation model trained on a decentralized network
Hash Rate - Ep 050 - Akash Decentralized Cloud - Greg Osury (Hash Rate Podcast)
“Thumper is another startup that did a full foundational model training from scratch on Akash using 24,000 A100 hours, which is a first example, I think, a decentralized network is used to train a foundation model. It took about two months to train.” — 00:16:30
Context: Listing AI users; also claims Nous Research is “one of the biggest users of Akash” and believed to be training their next model on it.