# The 2018 supercloud thesis: AI needs a decentralized supercloud

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-06-12
- **Theme:** Local Compute — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/
- **Source:** The GPU crisis that AI needs solved now. W/ Greg Osuri, CEO Overclock Labs Akash Network (Parks and Decentralization)
- **Watch at:** 00:19:26 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSCkBP7Pw6Y&t=1166s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/2023-06-12-the-2018-supercloud-thesis-ai-needs-a-decentralize-5m65/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "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), 12 Jun 2023, 00:19:26. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSCkBP7Pw6Y&t=1166s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Traces the supercloud idea to Cornell research (~2015): heterogeneous devices across providers presented as one homogeneous cloud, plus a marketplace to acquire resources.