# Decentralized AI "takes off" mid-2025; every layer of AI will decentralize

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-05-13
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** Ep. 654 The Intersection of AI and Cryptocurrency with Akash Network (CRYPTO 101)
- **Watch at:** 00:47:57 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-654-the-intersection-of-ai-and/id1262351840?i=1000708305733
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2025-05-13-decentralized-ai-takes-off-mid-2025-every-layer-of-j2w6/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "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), 13 May 2025, 00:47:57. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-654-the-intersection-of-ai-and/id1262351840?i=1000708305733

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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.