# Contribute compute, own the model, earn inference revenue

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-01-02
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** "AI Sovereignty: Building the Path to Individual AI with Greg Osuri" (The Outpost Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:38:15 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-sovereignty-building-the-path-to-individual-ai/id1779395525?i=1000682416476
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2025-01-02-contribute-compute-own-the-model-earn-inference-re-76yh/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Contribute compute, own the model, earn inference revenue," "AI Sovereignty: Building the Path to Individual AI with Greg Osuri" (The Outpost Podcast), 2 Jan 2025, 00:38:15. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-sovereignty-building-the-path-to-individual-ai/id1779395525?i=1000682416476

## Quote — verbatim

> One of the most exciting incentive models for me was, well, if I contribute compute to you, to your model, and if I get an ownership based on my contribution from the model, that means I get inference revenues, because inference is how you make money, and training is how you spend money... if there is some ownership rights that I can get from my contribution, I think we hit the nail on the head, because that solves everything.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Answering "why would I lend my computer to train your model?" — the missing monetization primitive for decentralized training; he urges joining Nous's incentivized testnet.