More compute lives in user devices than in data centers
Greg Osuri, Marko Stokic, Michael Heinrich & Luki Song on Can User-Owned AI Compete with Big Tech? (Nebular)
“There’s a lot more compute that’s spread across user devices than centralized in a data center. Now with techniques that we have coming up for distributed learning and whatnot, users can own their compute and aggregate them through decentralized technologies — and that’s happening very rapidly.” — 00:02:15
Context: Answering “what moat does Big Tech have?” — he argues compute and data moats both invert in favor of users.