Decentralized AI "takes off" mid-2025; every layer of AI will decentralize
Ep. 654 The Intersection of AI and Cryptocurrency with Akash Network (CRYPTO 101)
“This like new era of decentralized AI, which I believe will take off mid year, like June, July timeframe… there’s going to be an explosion of decentralized AI, but the beginning of the training, and then we’re going to go to inference… So every layer of AI will be decentralized.” — 00:47:57
Context: He grounds the timing in ICML paper volume and his involvement with Nous Research, Pluralis and Prime Intellect — “all of them actually use Akash right now to do their research” (00:48:41); bandwidth (Helium, Starlink) is the next DePIN layer.