# Distributed training takes center stage

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2026-04-11
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** 🔴LIVE: WLFI In Trouble? Winter Is Over. Brian Armstrong Pushing DC HARD, FTDA then Lighter & Akash (The Rollup)
- **Watch at:** 02:14:33 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJunRCzatkE&t=8073s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2026-04-11-distributed-training-takes-center-stage-53kl/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Distributed training takes center stage," 🔴LIVE: WLFI In Trouble? Winter Is Over. Brian Armstrong Pushing DC HARD, FTDA then Lighter & Akash (The Rollup), 11 Apr 2026, 02:14:33. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJunRCzatkE&t=8073s

## Quote — verbatim

> On the bright side, distributed training actually is taking the center stage. We saw a new model by a subnet in Bittensor called Covenant, which did a 72 billion parameter model, which is not state-of-the-art but definitely better than what Llama 70 billion parameter model was... it's not hard to see where you have a distributed grid and that grid contributing to a larger distributed network for AI as a possible solution.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Framing decentralized training plus decentralized energy (a distributed grid) as the answer to the data-center energy wall.