# "By the end of the year, we'll have a very high-quality model that competes with centralized models"

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-07-31
- **Theme:** Local Compute — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/
- **Source:** Solving AI's Energy Crisis with Decentralized Compute, w/ Akash CEO Greg Osuri (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:27:07 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/solving-ais-energy-crisis-with-decentralized-compute-w/id1792518750?i=1000720143134
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/2025-07-31-by-the-end-of-the-year-we-ll-have-a-very-high-qual-p7mv/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, ""By the end of the year, we'll have a very high-quality model that competes with centralized models"," Solving AI's Energy Crisis with Decentralized Compute, w/ Akash CEO Greg Osuri (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast), 31 Jul 2025, 00:27:07. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/solving-ais-energy-crisis-with-decentralized-compute-w/id1792518750?i=1000720143134

## Quote — verbatim

> By the end of the year, we'll have a very high-quality model that competes with centralized models, right? So it's not far out. Now, I'm putting my money where my mouth is and say, well, look, we are actually going to do it without any help from the state and the government. We don't need to because economics, number one, play really well.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Tied to his StarCluster congressional proposal — decentralization instead of overbuilding data centers.