# The fix is changing the math: 875x less communication

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-07-31
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** Solving AI's Energy Crisis with Decentralized Compute, w/ Akash CEO Greg Osuri (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:14:16 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/solving-ais-energy-crisis-with-decentralized-compute-w/id1792518750?i=1000720143134
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2025-07-31-the-fix-is-changing-the-math-875x-less-communicati-p7mv/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The fix is changing the math: 875x less communication," Solving AI's Energy Crisis with Decentralized Compute, w/ Akash CEO Greg Osuri (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast), 31 Jul 2025, 00:14:16. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/solving-ais-energy-crisis-with-decentralized-compute-w/id1792518750?i=1000720143134

## Quote — verbatim

> Can we actually reduce the amount of energy bandwidth that's needed between nodes?... They were able to reduce communication or improve bandwidth requirements by 875x. So from, I think, like 80 gigabytes to, like, 70 megabytes.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Surveying low-communication optimizers: DeepMind's DiLoCo paper (Whisper: "DialaCo"), Prime Intellect's fully decentralized 10B-parameter model, and Nous Research's DisTrO (Whisper: "News Research"). First quoted sentence is at [00:13:22].