The 2018 supercloud thesis: AI needs a decentralized supercloud
The GPU crisis that AI needs solved now. W/ Greg Osuri, CEO Overclock Labs Akash Network (Parks and Decentralization)
“In 2018 we wrote a paper called Akash Network, the decentralized supercloud… a key ideology in that is AI machine learning is getting expensive, cloud is getting very very expensive… and we did deep thesis on why AI needs a supercloud, and then we started working on enabling GPUs.” — 00:19:26
Context: Traces the supercloud idea to Cornell research (~2015): heterogeneous devices across providers presented as one homogeneous cloud, plus a marketplace to acquire resources.