# 90% of Akash contributors are outside the company

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-03-30
- **Theme:** Open-Source AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/
- **Source:** Mission: DeFi EP 92 - Greg Osuri - Akash is taking on the giants in hosted processing (Mission: DeFi)
- **Watch at:** 00:42:43 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVH1OYhNOeE&t=2563s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/2023-03-30-90-of-akash-contributors-are-outside-the-company-5yxh/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "90% of Akash contributors are outside the company," Mission: DeFi EP 92 - Greg Osuri - Akash is taking on the giants in hosted processing (Mission: DeFi), 30 Mar 2023, 00:42:43. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVH1OYhNOeE&t=2563s

## Quote — verbatim

> We went radically open... we open sourced the process itself... everything we do except for personnel issues is open... right now there are about 229 active contributors to Akash, \[of\] which 20 of them belong to Overclock Labs — 90% of contributors for Akash Network are outside the company that created it... Overclock can disappear today and Akash will still operate.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Radical-openness model: public product meetings, an economics proposal shared externally before internally, and an on-chain public goods pool with no PM or fund coordinator.