Tokenized model ownership: contribute compute, own the model, earn on inference
Greg Osuri | Trump's impact on crypto x AI, why DePIN is inevitable, and Akash Network revenue ATH's (Proof of Coverage Media)
“The model is open source but the weights are not open source, and weights are available to the folks that contribute compute. So if I participate in a training run for [a] 100 billion parameter model, if I give my compute, I get some token that represents my ownership of the model… during inference time my ownership will give me some share of the profit… fully open source, owned by the people that built it.” — 00:26:46
Context: Describing the emerging business model that solves “why train open source for free” — inference pays, training earns ownership.