# High conviction: 3-5 years for decentralized AI, or never

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-08-02
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** Solving the AI energy crisis \| Greg Osuri on what it takes to power AI (Changelog)
- **Watch at:** 01:21:05 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61OOQfY5cqU&t=4865s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2025-08-02-high-conviction-3-5-years-for-decentralized-ai-or-6qaf/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "High conviction: 3-5 years for decentralized AI, or never," Solving the AI energy crisis \| Greg Osuri on what it takes to power AI (Changelog), 2 Aug 2025, 01:21:05. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61OOQfY5cqU&t=4865s

## Quote — verbatim

> I have high conviction over the next 3 to 5 years decentralized AI has the best shot to make a mark in the world. We got the best shot right now. If we don't make progress in the next two years, I don't think decentralized AI will take off... People are going to use a solution because there's no other option — that's really the best way to sell a product.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

He argues decentralized AI wins only via the energy crisis, not privacy or ideology — "people are willing to give up privacy for comfort"; it must be a better product than ChatGPT.