# Akash is the de facto standard for decentralized AI

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-08-02
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** Greg Osuri of Akash on Unlocking DePIN Capabilities for AI Model Training (Nebular)
- **Watch at:** 00:12:20 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWKVdqzUBAg&t=740s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2024-08-02-akash-is-the-de-facto-standard-for-decentralized-a-np2z/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash is the de facto standard for decentralized AI," Greg Osuri of Akash on Unlocking DePIN Capabilities for AI Model Training (Nebular), 2 Aug 2024, 00:12:20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWKVdqzUBAg&t=740s

## Quote — verbatim

> Akash now is the de facto standard for decentralized AI. You'll see projects like Venice AI, which is co-founded by Erik Voorhees... him embracing Akash as the DeAI layer for Venice AI, which is a privacy-optimized, censorship-resistant AI chat service.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Ecosystem section; he also cites Nous Research training the next Hermes model on Akash and "Neural Thumper," the first model trained completely on Akash using 24,000 A100-hours. ("de facto" garbled as "deao" in auto-captions.)