Local Compute

“We see that changing quite a bit with GPUs, because GPUs now don’t necessarily mandate cloud-grade compute — pretty much any home computer with a powerful GPU can offer compute… gaming computers or mining computers that have a lot of GPUs will soon enough [be] offering [on] Akash.” — Greg Osuri, 00:54:40

“We are coming up with an ARM-first build very, very soon. It’s on the roadmap… I think like this quarter and next we’ll have an ARM and GPU build coming out, so you can put that on your phones. Akash, like, one-click install on your phones. I think Androids will come first.” — Greg Osuri, 00:47:49

“Akash is device-first… being decentralized, being optimized [to] run anywhere, we are very well positioned to be device-first, where the cloud completely skipped the device in the world. So another reason why we’re gonna win is because of that — a device-first approach, because there’s a whole new generation of machines that haven’t touched the cloud.” — Greg Osuri, 00:49:58

“Our reliance on data centers does not compromise [decentralization], but it bootstraps supply so that we can actually go build meaningful networks — a meaningful network that’ll eventually reduce the reliance on a big data center to a point it can be a Super Mini, or it can be a phone, or it can be a fridge, or it can be a car… the vision is always way more decentralized than big data centers.” — Greg Osuri, 01:30:41

“Red Hat is doing amazing work in developing something called Car OS, and I predicted this like in 2015. I was talking to somebody [at] Daimler in Germany… that hey, cars should just start using containers and Kubernetes to manage the internal workloads, and cars are about 200 computers these days.” — Greg Osuri, 00:49:17

“End state for Akash is not just taking over cloud, but I think redefining what cloud is — looking at every possible underutilized resource and enabling utility on top of that… the next step will be like when Tesla has Akash installed in it. That would be my end state.” — Greg Osuri, 00:45:42

“When Akash is at like a full success state, everybody in the world will use Akash and not know that you’re using Akash… someone can make up to eight hundred dollars mining crypto on Tesla. So why isn’t your Tesla paying for itself? Why isn’t your refrigerator paying for itself? Why isn’t your gaming console…?” — Greg Osuri, 00:45:00

“A home computer that’s powerful enough can earn income on Akash when we have applications that would leverage such a computer. So machine learning would be the type of application… so we kind of postponed the Supermini to a few years down the line.” — Greg Osuri, 00:28:33

“That is the original vision of Akash… it’s about sovereignty. We want people to own their own compute, because that’s the best possible deal you can get compared to running it on the cloud. But when you have to scale up… you should be able to connect to the network, or when you do not have demand on your own cluster, you should be able to offload that supply to the network. So the real vision is to create a truly peer-to-peer compute network… truly hyper-efficient usage of resources — I think that’s the best model.” — Greg Osuri, 00:50:42

“We wanted to put gas on GPUs, and that leads into minimizing the resource requirements to run an Akash provider to a point it can be run in an IoT device. That’s another area I want to start putting gas on, R&D into.” — Greg Osuri, 00:17:13

“Supermini is not dead. It’s just living and waiting for its day to come back.” — Greg Osuri, 00:37:01

“Mobile phones… are lightweight devices… a use case for Akash there would be lightweight processing on the mobile phone and heavyweight processing on Akash, on a decentralized cloud. So you can see how the mobile operating system can work in tandem with the cloud operating system… in a highly composable way, without the user even knowing about it.” — Greg Osuri, 00:12:13

“Somebody, a community member, became a provider on Akash Network using Praetor, and now he’s writing a guide on how others with, like, compute lying around can… start earning passive income. We’re starting to see community take hold of provider engagement.” — Greg Osuri, 00:16:16

“How do you serve that data in a high-performance way, in a low-latency way? You do that by reducing the network latency between the end user and the server, and that means you need to go where the user is — that means the servers need to be in the same location of the user.” — Greg Osuri, 00:32:52

“Mobile phones are lightweight devices — they can [not] do the computations, right? So a use case for Akash there would be lightweight processing on the mobile phone and heavyweight processing on Akash, on a decentralized cloud. So you can see how the mobile operating system can work in tandem with the cloud operating system in a highly composable way, without the user even knowing about it. Such use cases could be like games… you can have the high-end graphic processing done on the cloud on Akash and deliver that directly to the mobile phone.” — Greg Osuri, 00:00:42

“People are realizing it’s actually way cheaper to buy a GPU and host it at home, but then you’re not using those GPUs most of the time, so it’s even better when you can actually lease them out to recover some of your investments. So Akash GPU [is something] I’m extremely bullish on… as we get closer to releasing GPUs… we’re realizing the GPU market is much bigger than what we realized.” — Greg Osuri, 00:12:25

“GPUs allow us to tap into this massive deployed capital and resources, like gaming machines to powerful workstations… to data center compute that has enormous amounts of GPUs. With Ethereum mining… there was enormous infrastructure that was built for this mining use case that’s all underutilized right now, so the GPU market will allow us to untap this.” — Greg Osuri, 00:07:15

“Check out Evergreen miner… Evergreen is a miner that runs Akash, that you can actually purchase and plug in in your home. So when you’re not using the miner, it essentially runs Akash software and it mines for you… another example as to why grassroots permissionless innovation really takes off.” — Greg Osuri, 00:12:59

“Akash is not really a cloud, it’s a market, right? If you’re using Akash you’re actually deploying on an Equinix or an OVH or, you know, someone’s home server if you choose to. The point is it’s not really a single provider but rather you’re going to a bunch of bare metal providers.” — Greg Osuri, 00:01:24