# Crypto is the only framework to monetize open AI

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-02-26
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** Everything Bagel: Open Source AI, Security, and Decentralization with Greg Osuri, Founder at Akash (The Index Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:46:54 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTJaABZMi9c&t=2814s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2025-02-26-crypto-is-the-only-framework-to-monetize-open-ai-6wn2/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Crypto is the only framework to monetize open AI," Everything Bagel: Open Source AI, Security, and Decentralization with Greg Osuri, Founder at Akash (The Index Podcast), 26 Feb 2025, 00:46:54. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTJaABZMi9c&t=2814s

## Quote — verbatim

> There's no doubt in my mind that crypto is the only framework to have monetizable machine intelligence... it's going to be multiple people, multiple organizations, multiple protocols interoperating with each other, permissionless.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

On how open-source AI sustains itself; he argues decentralization/crypto is the only proven mechanism to fund open source, and intelligence "has to be unstoppable."