Every lab is looking at it — mainstage in a couple of years, GPUs on farmland
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“I’ve been talking to several labs — I don’t want to name who, they’re under NDAs — everybody’s looking at distributed training as a serious potential. If we figure out an incentive structure for distributed training — that’s where crypto has a phenomenal role — I don’t see how distributed training will [not] take main stage in a couple of years. And when that happens, bet you, you want GPUs in a farmland.” — 02:15:15
Context: Time-boxed forecast (~2 years) linking distributed training, crypto incentives, and his rural home-GPU thesis. The transcript reads “will take main stage”; the negation is implied by the sentence structure. He also cites Jack Clark (Anthropic co-founder) discussing distributed AI training.