# Decentralized training must be solved before open frontier models stop

- **Speaker:** Erik Voorhees
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-06-13
- **Theme:** Open-Source AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/
- **Source:** Erik Voorhees and Greg Osuri: "The Power of Permissionless" - Akash Accelerate '24 (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:18:47 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nRz_dVhE28&t=1127s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/2024-06-13-decentralized-training-must-be-solved-before-open-c3jp/
- **Cite as:** Erik Voorhees, "Decentralized training must be solved before open frontier models stop," Erik Voorhees and Greg Osuri: "The Power of Permissionless" - Akash Accelerate '24 (Akash Network), 13 Jun 2024, 00:18:47. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nRz_dVhE28&t=1127s

## Quote — verbatim

> If that can happen before the Metas of the world stop releasing their frontier models open source, then we have a very good future ahead of us. If that doesn't happen before those companies stop releasing the open source models, then we have a possibly very dystopian future in front of us.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

**Speaker:** Erik Voorhees, not Greg. His thesis that the open-source AI "honeymoon period" depends on solving efficient decentralized model training.