Now, to finish, hear me out. Crypto. Yeah, I know it’s not cool rn, but the fact remains AI is dominated by a few large companies. Capex is going to be 10bn+ annually to train next gen models. Even Inflection founded by Linkedin and Deepmind founders didn’t have the money to win. And the biggest lab doesn’t even have a board anymore. Or senior management. Only OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Amazon, and Nvidia can build billion dollar AI clusters. But there is an opportunity to aggregate a fungible pool of compute. Blockchains offer an alternative to closed AI providers with Meta an outlier with an open-source strategy. These protocols are designed for broad-based participation, allow for independent verification of results and technically unstoppable. It may be closer to activism than customer-driven problem solving, but there is a role for crypto in AI as a secure, auditable and open access infrastructure. Because can we afford for the future to be determined by Sam? Feels like it’s time to get those crypto folk to finally ship some stuff that works yeah? It’s final boss time.

9.1. Decentralized Training

9.2. Decentralized Inference

9.3. Decentralized Agents