# 500 to 5,000 contributors by next Accelerate

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-05-29
- **Theme:** Open-Source AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/
- **Source:** Akash Accelerate '24: Official Livestream (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 06:38:39 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60mmj3bNzB0&t=23919s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/2024-05-29-500-to-5-000-contributors-by-next-accelerate-43cl/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "500 to 5,000 contributors by next Accelerate," Akash Accelerate '24: Official Livestream (Akash Network), 29 May 2024, 06:38:39. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60mmj3bNzB0&t=23919s

## Quote — verbatim

> We have an enormous community, about 500 open source developers now contributing to Akash. We want to make that 5,000 by the time we have the next Accelerate.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Closing Q&A, answering what "Accelerate" means to him; a 10x quantified community-growth target.