The holy grail: contribute your computer to a training run, get tokens back
The Truth About Decentralized AI and the Future of Compute (TEACHMEDEFI)
“The real interesting stuff I think in AI is distributed training… There hasn’t been a platform where you go and be like, ‘Hey, I’m going to contribute my computer to this training run, I want some tokens back.’ That’s the holy grail we’re working towards. No one has quite figured that out… nothing cohesive in terms of a framework that can bring all the primitives together… and make it as easy or as interesting as DeFi was during DeFi summer.” — 00:47:08
Context: He notes the legit distributed-training teams don’t have tokens (“that’s how you know it’s legit”) and hints Akash has “something in the works.”