Sovereign compute: "compute is going to be like spice"
Solving AI's Energy Crisis with Decentralized Compute, w/ Akash CEO Greg Osuri (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast)
“Our long-term vision has been the same since our white papers we wrote in 2018. It hasn’t changed at all. Our vision is sovereign compute. Compute is going to be like spice… Historically, spice was the most valuable commodity… Instead of giving up your sovereignty for comfort, we can have both.” — 00:36:05
Context: The spice analogy: not essential at first, then the most valuable commodity; “we all use compute. We just don’t realize how much compute we use.”