# Traditional AI now accepts decentralized training: five papers at ICML

- **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:** 00:22:26 — 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-traditional-ai-now-accepts-decentralized-training-p7mv/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Traditional AI now accepts decentralized training: five papers at ICML," Solving AI's Energy Crisis with Decentralized Compute, w/ Akash CEO Greg Osuri (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast), 31 Jul 2025, 00:22:26. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/solving-ais-energy-crisis-with-decentralized-compute-w/id1792518750?i=1000720143134

## Quote — verbatim

> Why last year there was dismissal of this? No one even thought this was possible. This year, there are five papers that are all presenting at ICML. That's a big shift because that is acceptance by traditional AI.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

He had just given an hour-long invited lecture on energy at ICML Vancouver to a packed room of 300, "completely opposite to crypto... it reminded me of what crypto used to be back in 2013" [00:20:17].