"The notion that decentralized systems cannot be fast is just wrong" — and real products already prove it
Greg Osuri, Marko Stokic, Michael Heinrich & Luki Song on Can User-Owned AI Compete with Big Tech? (Nebular)
“The notion that decentralized systems cannot be fast is just wrong… Unlike last year, this year we actually have real products — it’s not some ideas. Venice runs on Akash, Brave runs on Akash, Nous runs on Akash, Prime Intellect… this is not just some future promise, this is real product-market fit, this is real revenues, real users.” — 00:15:15
Context: Asked about speed vs. centralized AI. He concedes decentralized can’t yet match OpenAI’s scale but points to Bittensor’s ~$1B/year emissions as a path to funding large clusters ([00:15:58]).