# Token incentives could out-compete OpenAI

- **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:** 00:21:50 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61OOQfY5cqU&t=1310s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2025-08-02-token-incentives-could-out-compete-openai-53mo/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Token incentives could out-compete OpenAI," Solving the AI energy crisis \| Greg Osuri on what it takes to power AI (Changelog), 2 Aug 2025, 00:21:50. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61OOQfY5cqU&t=1310s

## Quote — verbatim

> We all know Bitcoin is the largest supercomputer in the world. Why? Because there's an incentive structure to contribute compute to Bitcoin. Similarly, if there's an incentive structure to contribute your compute to train a model, there is a possibility we may actually out-compete OpenAIs of the world, because now you have the public.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Decentralization as incentives layered on top of distributed training — a recurring thesis.