# The holy grail: contribute your computer to a training run, get tokens back

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-12-03
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** The Truth About Decentralized AI and the Future of Compute (TEACHMEDEFI)
- **Watch at:** 00:47:08 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWA3IAr9sc4&t=2828s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2025-12-03-the-holy-grail-contribute-your-computer-to-a-train-4336/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The holy grail: contribute your computer to a training run, get tokens back," The Truth About Decentralized AI and the Future of Compute (TEACHMEDEFI), 3 Dec 2025, 00:47:08. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWA3IAr9sc4&t=2828s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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."