# Nous Research's DisTrO cracked decentralized training on Akash

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-12-06
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** Akash's Greg Osuri on the Future of Cloud Computing \| Mainnet 2024 (Messari)
- **Watch at:** 00:18:51 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKDw4KZ23G4&t=1131s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2024-12-06-nous-research-s-distro-cracked-decentralized-train-2gag/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Nous Research's DisTrO cracked decentralized training on Akash," Akash's Greg Osuri on the Future of Cloud Computing \| Mainnet 2024 (Messari), 6 Dec 2024, 00:18:51. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKDw4KZ23G4&t=1131s

## Quote — verbatim

> Nous recently came out with this incredible technique called DisTrO, which really is a practical way of leveraging decentralized GPUs for machine learning training. For context, training has been extremely hard to do on decentralized or distributed networks because of latency requirements, but Nous has figured out how to do that on Akash Network. So Akash is unlocking this new generation of companies that are able to get resources that they couldn't get from traditional cloud.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Ecosystem examples; he also claims Nvidia is Akash's biggest user and "Akash is the only product integrated into Nvidia products" ([00:18:07]), and plugs Venice AI as a private, uncensored ChatGPT alternative running on Akash.