# Distributed training is at its GPT-2 moment

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2026-02-12
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** "DACM Insights: Decentralizing AI, The Akash Approach" (DACM Insights)
- **Watch at:** 00:14:39 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQONg2f0zQc&t=879s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2026-02-12-distributed-training-is-at-its-gpt-2-moment-km27/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Distributed training is at its GPT-2 moment," "DACM Insights: Decentralizing AI, The Akash Approach" (DACM Insights), 12 Feb 2026, 00:14:39. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQONg2f0zQc&t=879s

## Quote — verbatim

> We, as a distributed training landscape, are maybe at a GPT-2 level in terms of our technological progress... that's going to take some time and some resources and incentives. My big question is not the technology — it's what is the incentive for someone to provide the compute to train a model... and I think that's where we're entering the crypto AI space, and where Akash fits in — the infrastructure layer for the entire thing.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Positioning crypto incentives as the missing piece for distributed training; leads directly into the home-node discussion.