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“Compared to the last big technology that got popularity, which was crypto… AI is exponentially easier to explain to your grandmother. It passes the grandmother test. And that’s key because no technology that came before AI could pass the test.” — Greg Osuri, 00:48:00

“AI makes someone’s job much better. Lawyers, doctors, just service professionals. So, today if a doctor can see 10 patients in a day, with AI, they’ll be able to see 50 patients a day. If a lawyer needs to review a contract, if it takes an hour, that contract will take 10 minutes to 5 minutes using AI.” — Greg Osuri, 00:51:12

“Also, US Department of Defense use Akash internally to secure their servers — but they use a fork of the Akash Network, they don’t connect to the network.” — Greg Osuri, 00:31:28

“For me AI is just, in one way to look at it, a better recollection engine; another way to look at it, a better automation engine; another way to look at it, a better listener or emotional engine… in the simplest manner I think it’s just a better paintbrush.” — Greg Osuri, 00:07:25

“Very soon the real content versus synthetic content will be indifferentiable, right? So very soon you won’t be able to say what’s real, what’s not.” — Greg Osuri, 00:16:50

“I predict in two years… I think this election is going to be a deepfake election, and in two years we’re going to have this problem so massive. There will be moments of chaos during this election due to fakes — that’s my prediction… ultimately I think humanity will figure it out, but it’s going to be painful before we figure it out.” — Greg Osuri, 00:42:12

“You can have a fully vertically integrated stack… yes, you can get adoption very quickly if you do it fully custodial, but you can go fast — you can’t go far. Really, open systems that are open to everybody and give opportunity for people to build on top of it tend to go much further. That’s why I’m a big believer in open systems.” — Greg Osuri, 00:16:46

“A key insight we learned over the past year, but something that has always been behind our thoughts: the challenge for distributed systems is not technology, it’s the experience… the user almost is not at the center of what we do. So by taking a different approach, an approach that involves the user, [that] solves the adoption problem.” — Greg Osuri, 00:12:37

“Platforms is a winner-take-all market, and there is no place for the second person — it doesn’t work that way. When you enter a market you want to absolutely dominate, and you want to do it because you want your values, that align with industry, to take precedence over people with greed.” — Greg Osuri, 00:46:15

“It is not always the easiest-to-use products [that] win. It is usually the products that have cognitive coefficiency of over one… if the value perceived over cognitive load required is greater than one, the product will be successful.” — Greg Osuri, 00:37:37

“Specialization is also a myth. People say that in order to be successful you’ve got to be doing one thing and one thing only. It’s a myth, because the greatest luminaries like Leonardo da Vinci or Einstein always had creative outlets.” — Greg Osuri, 00:30:55

“I think IPs are more scarce than gold — think about it. It’d be cool to have an IP coin someday that’s backed by IP addresses.” — Greg Osuri, 00:12:44

“We have enormous community — about 500 open source devs now contributing to Akash. We want to make that 5,000 by the time we have the next Accelerate.” — Greg Osuri, 03:58:44

“Akash is too early right now to be shut down by regulation. I think if regulation is out of the way, I think Akash is unstoppable… if you’re a builder you can build as long as you’re allowed to build — we’ll build our way out of any problems.” — Unknown, 01:12:37

“Akash is one of the largest IP address marketplaces — we don’t really talk much about it… IPs are more scarce than gold, think about it. It’d be cool to have an IP coin someday that’s backed by IP addresses. It’s a really scarce namespace.” — Greg Osuri, 00:10:02

“Beginning of 2023… we went radically open source, in the sense including the process of setting the road map is open source, along with the code… we had like 20 or 30 contributors before… now we have about 500 contributors… [Overclock Labs] does not conduct any private product meetings anymore. It’s all done in the public, the video is posted on a blockchain… I guess people are training [AI] on our meeting notes.” — Greg Osuri, 00:12:11

“End of the year, I think it’ll be 100K.” — Greg Osuri, 01:06:02

“Akash is too early right now to be shut down by regulation. I think if regulation is out of her way, I think Akash is unstoppable. But if regulation comes and basically says you cannot exist, I think that’s going to be a big problem… if you’re a builder you can build as long as you’re allowed to build — we’ll build our way out of any problems… but if you’re not allowed to build, that’ll be a problem.” — Unknown, 00:23:13

“With closed you can go fast, with open you can go far. That’s why any sufficiently important technology that has wide adoption is always open — starting off with internet, with operating systems… open source always goes so much further than closed source can, but it’s so much slower.” — Greg Osuri, 00:29:01

“Even looking at quantum — there’s quite a lot of work happening in quantum. We’ll be announcing some things very soon. We have a researcher from MIT that is looking into quantum seriously for machine learning.” — Greg Osuri, 00:50:55

“Eight years.” — Unknown, 00:27:53

“A big challenge today with open software… is contributor churn… we saw companies like Docker just run out of business after raising at billions of dollars of valuation… the challenge is how do we really create open source, stay open source, without taking shortcuts… that was one of the big things that we figured out at Akash.” — Greg Osuri, 00:03:36

“We have a 0.5% — less than 0.5% — conversion rate for activation… but guess what, we solved it. We have a new update coming in a couple of months called trial wallets… I think these trial wallets are going to be a bigger unlock than GPUs for Akash.” — Greg Osuri, 00:20:58

“My personal experience: Anthropic is way better than GPT-4. Like, all these errors — I didn’t have them before; it was cleaner, it had the right dependencies. For some reason ChatGPT forgot how to code.” — Greg Osuri, 00:54:43

“Most people have no clue what AI can do… I have this like dystopian view at the same time, very optimistic view as well. I think it’s going to get worse before it gets better, because there’s going to be quite a lot of damage… when things get worse, regulation comes in… and I’m praying that it happens at a pace where the people that want to stop us can’t keep up.” — Greg Osuri, 00:35:34

“Railroads did not die because airplanes came or motorways came… railroads died because they got overly corrupt and regulated as a result, and that led to the death of a whole industry. And that’s the reason why we have railroads in Asia and Europe but we don’t have railroads anymore in America.” — Greg Osuri, 00:19:48

“Underrated.” — Greg Osuri, 00:30:20

“It’s going to be semiconductor dollar, it’s going to be energy dollar… whoever owns semiconductors will own the economy.” — Greg Osuri, 00:28:09

“The need for computation, especially for AI, is growing at the rate of half an order of magnitude every year. Today it is predicted by 2030 about 5% of global GDP will be spent on AI.” — Greg Osuri, 00:13:09

“There’s going to be, of course, classism, where people that know how to use AI are going to out-[compete] people that don’t use AI. So then people that don’t know how to use AI will have no other option [but] to use AI… like back in the day, [the] internet was the same thing.” — Greg Osuri, 00:52:57

“I think there’s going to be a very fascinating East AI and West AI. I’m obviously bullish [on] West AI because we’re more free people in general — I think freedom in thought is very important for innovation. West innovates, China replicates, and Europe regulates.” — Greg Osuri, 00:51:32

“It’s not regulating AI that’s important — it’s regulating what AI produces that matters… if you start banning producing images then you’ve got to ban art, then you’ve got to ban paintbrushes. It’s just a better paintbrush. So the best regulation is no regulation for AI, in my opinion.” — Greg Osuri, 00:14:30

“AI literally unlocks so much human potential that was locked away because of information asymmetry. So I think a lot of the [things] that we thought historically were far away are going to be proven wrong. You’re going to see future in the next five years… humanity is going to reach type one civilization [in] 50 years with the rate we’re going.” — Greg Osuri, 00:58:56

“The challenge today is for LLM developers to deploy an LLM and use an LLM that is large, like a Llama 3.1 405B, takes about 6 hours. It’s extremely expensive… it costs about $30 per hour… so we have a new product that’s going to significantly reduce the cost and the time it takes to run LLMs, so that way you’ll be able to attract your traditional web2 developers, and Akash will be one of the most attractive products not only in web3 but also web2.” — Greg Osuri, 00:16:39

“Oh, it’s coming soon. We’re working with MIT professors to quantum-proof Akash… It’s very, very close now. I would say like next three years.” — Greg Osuri, 00:58:11

“AI is a technology that buys you time. It’s not something that is going to replace human beings, but it lets humans do things that were previously not possible. Like me — as a CEO I run a company but I don’t have time to code, but now I have time to code because AI lets me write code really fast.” — Greg Osuri, 00:02:56