2025 broke the "decentralized AI is impossible" assumption
Superintelligence Needs The Supercloud Why the AI Revolution... | PMLS 2025 | Day 3 | Open Source AI (Blockworks)
“Until recently, decentralized AI was just considered impossible — too slow, too fragmented. But in 2025, that changed. Pluralis introduced async swarm training… Gensyn trained a 72 billion parameter model on a decentralized testnet — no campus, no cloud, just thousands of volunteers with GPUs. Bagel used ZK-LoRA… to verify decentralized fine-tuning without needing to rerun it. Nous is training a 405B parameter open model using distributed GPUs.” — 00:06:45
Context: Evidence roll for “models trained across continents with compute contributed from living rooms, research labs and micro data centers.”