# "The notion that decentralized systems cannot be fast is just wrong" — and real products already prove it

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-08-02
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** Greg Osuri, Marko Stokic, Michael Heinrich & Luki Song on Can User-Owned AI Compete with Big Tech? (Nebular)
- **Watch at:** 00:15:15 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bEi1i2c12E&t=915s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2024-08-02-the-notion-that-decentralized-systems-cannot-be-fa-sqao/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, ""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), 2 Aug 2024, 00:15:15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bEi1i2c12E&t=915s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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]).