# Post-upgrade roadmap: verifiable compute and VMs, with demand to follow

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-10-20
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** Akash Founder: Why We're Leaving our Sovereign L1 Behind (Akash Alpha)
- **Watch at:** 00:22:16 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmRIa6PhO8Q&t=1336s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2025-10-20-post-upgrade-roadmap-verifiable-compute-and-vms-wi-wdcy/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Post-upgrade roadmap: verifiable compute and VMs, with demand to follow," Akash Founder: Why We're Leaving our Sovereign L1 Behind (Akash Alpha), 20 Oct 2025, 00:22:16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmRIa6PhO8Q&t=1336s

## Quote — verbatim

> I feel like it's going to be a new chapter post Mainnet 14 upgrade... that is going to set a new cadence in terms of how fast we'll be shipping features. And that made me comfortable enough to commit to a public roadmap that I published on my Twitter... Verifiable compute I think is huge... virtual machines — again, 90% of AI uses virtual machines. So I'm really excited for these two capabilities, and I think the demand will catch up.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

BME (burn mechanism) targeted ~1 month post-upgrade; JWT support shipping so providers needn't stay online for application operations.