📣NVIDIA H100s are the gold standard for AI. 🖥However, consumer GPUs like NVIDIA 30 & 40 series models are often overlooked despite representing a massive untapped source of compute. ‼️Akash is set to provide access to all of these GPU types in a single open-source marketplace. To see a performance comparison, watch Europlots deploy Falcon-7B on an NVIDIA 3090 and A100 via Akash -> link

‼️Prop 211: The Akash Community Pool & Inflation Proposal is live for voting. 📄This proposal utilizes the upcoming $AKT 2.0 features to directly support the growth of the GPU marketplace which will power the #AISupercloud. 👉Read the full proposal:

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🤝Today marks the end of the Akash GPU Testnet. ‼️Over 1,300 participants signed up to stress-test the network across a range of AI deployments and benchmarks. The testnet also successfully hosted NVIDIA GPUs including H100s, A100s, and more. 💪Everything passed with flying colors. ⚔️Now, the focus shifts to the upcoming mainnet upgrade which will bring the first open-source marketplace for high-density GPUs to the general public. The #AISupercloud is almost here.

The Akash GPU Testnet has already produced custom deployment specifications for the leading AI apps and models. Here are three you can deploy today: 1. AUTOMATIC1111 The most popular UI for working with diffusion models, like Stable Diffusion. Used by the leading AI artists and researchers. Link 2.lan-T5 A powerful and highly adaptable LLM. Created by Google. Link 3.Falcon-7B 7B is the smaller version of the most powerful open-source LLM, Falcon-40B. This model is small enough to run locally with high performance. Link 4.Try each of these deployments today with Akash Console. console.akash.network

We got NVIDIA A6000s on the Akash GPU Testnet. The first person to host 70B LLaMA 2 on Akash network GPU testnet wins 1000 $AKT (550 USD) Reply with the URL and screenshot of the startup log under this tweet LFG 🚀

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✅Akash GPU Testnet ends in a week. We found no critical issues that need to be addressed. The codebase is upgrade ready. 👉The Akash Mainnet 6 will be out in a few weeks following an upgrade proposal. 💥Hosting Machine Learning models never be the same. Source

🛠The newest Akash proposal just went live on GitHub Discussions. ⛓During this phase, the proposal is open to the community and general public for feedback — before it goes to a governance vote. ‼️Read the full proposal:

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⚙️Introducing AIQRArt, the newest community-built app made by zJ and powered by the Akash GPU Testnet. ✅Easily generate QR codes with Stable Diffusion in minutes. →

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QR Code Value: The URL of the website you would like to encode ❓Prompt: The instructions that will influence the image's style ‼️This app is in beta during testnet (while compute resources are limited for general network testing) and will only be able to handle limited traffic. If your prompt doesn't go through right away, try again a little later.

📣The Akash GPU Testnet has already accomplished so much, but there's just one more thing... 📝As of today, $AKT 2.0 Stable Payments & Take Rates are live on testnet. 🤝Stable Payments bring $USDC settlement to Akash. This will massively expand the potential market for deployments and is the first step towards enabling multi-currency support. Take Rates will help to fund the community pool and support network development. 💵The initially proposed rates are 20% for USDC and 4% for AKT. These rates can be changed at any time with a governance proposal. 🅰️The core team and community will rigorously test these new features over the next week — and both will be available to everyone as a part of Mainnet 6.

The Akash GPU Testnet has already made incredible progress over the past three weeks. But there is still more to accomplish, so the testnet will be extended for another week — to give more time to collect benchmarking data and prepare GPU providers for the upgrade to Mainnet 6. The testnet will conclude on July 19, 2023. Currently, all tasks (including the new GPU Benchmarking task) are open and there are still rewards available. Head over to the GPU-Deployers channel on the Akash Discord to get started.

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Akash has a full slate of events coming up over the next few weeks. Connect with the team and community at: ‣ #AtomBerlin ‣ #AwesomWasm ‣ #HackWasm ‣ #She__Fi Summit ‣ #EthCC ‣ #OsmoCon ‣ #EthGlobal ‣ #NebularBuilders P.S. Join @Splince today (in 4 hours) for live updates from #AtomBerlin 🇩🇪 Link

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📣AI Model Deployment already started on the Akash GPU Testnet. Participants will deploy various AI models, including Stable Diffusion, Flan-T5, and Falcon on a wide range of NVIDIA GPUs. This brings the #AISupercloud into the last phase of preparation for the Mainnet 6 upgrade. ⚔️GPU Benchmarking will be starting this week as well. Stay tuned for updates as the TorchBench PR gets closer to completion.

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📝If you've signed up for the Akash GPU Testnet, you should have already received an email to get started. If you haven't signed up yet but would like to join the Testnet — head over to the gpu-deployers channel on the Akash Discord:

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Attention ☁️ Community Members 📢 🚀 OmniFlix.Market Auctions v2 contest is here 🎉 Explore #NFTs listed in $AKT tokens. 💰 Participate and win from a 15,000 $FLIX prize pool (ends in 48 hrs) Visit

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now and List/Mint/Trade NFTs to be part of the Flix Fridays Campaign.

The Akash GPU Testnet's second task is live. SDL Builders will be creating deployment specifications for AI models including Falcon, Flan-T5, and Stable Diffusion. Things are moving quickly with a community-built SDL for Google BERT already in progress. If you would like to participate, head over to the "GPU Deployers" channel in the Akash Discord to get started:

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Deployments are already beginning to fill the available supply on the Akash GPU Testnet leading up to the final phase next week. Rewards are still available across several @nvidia GPU types, including: • H100 • A100 • P100 • A40 • A10 • P4 • 3090 Ti • 3080 Ti Testnet rewards are granted on a first-come-first-served basis, based on the total time the GPU is live on the network. Head to the GPU-Providers channel on the Akash Discord to get started:

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The Akash GPU Testnet is currently hosting over 60% of the providers needed to ensure the successful launch of Mainnet 6. With more than two weeks to go, the Testnet is on track to meet and surpass the provider goal. SDL Building begins tomorrow. Stay tuned for updates.

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The Akash GPU Testnet has begun onboarding GPU Providers following a successful launch yesterday. Today, join Greg Osuri, the Overclock team, and the Akash community for a special Twitter Spaces to discuss testnet updates, including an audience Q&A. Set your reminders ! - Link

📣Hundreds of people signed up for the Akash GPU Testnet to help test the first open-source cloud for GPUs — and the wait is finally over. 🚀GPU onboarding starts right now. 💵With over $100,000 in available rewards, this marks a new era for Akash. Welcome to the #AISupercloud. 🛠P.S. If you already signed up at https://akash.network/gpu-testnet/ - you'll be receiving an onboarding email shortly. 🤯If you haven't registered but would like to set up a GPU Provider, head over to Discord to connect with the community and find setup instructions. →

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The #AISupercloud is gaining significant momentum. Hundreds have signed up to become: ‣ GPU Providers with nvidia H100s, A100s, and more ‣ AI model deployers ‣ PyTorch Benchmarkers ‣ SDL Builders Rewards launching Today ! on 6/20 → https://akash.network/gpu-testnet/

This week leads to the launch of the Akash GPU Testnet rewards, which are scheduled to go live next Tuesday, June 20th. If you haven't had the chance yet, sign up at: ‣ https://akash.network/gpu-testnet/ Also, this week, make sure to attend meetings of the website, education, community, and design groups. ↓ wg-akash-website 🗓 Tuesday, June 13th, 3:30-4:30 UTC Link to join: sig-education 🗓 Tuesday, June 13th, 5-6 UTC Link to join sig-community 🗓 Tuesday, June 13th, 6-7 UTC Link to join sig-design 🗓 Wednesday, June 14th, 3-4 UTC Link to join

📣Today, Overclock Labs is announcing over 💵$100,000 in incentives, paid in $AKT — to accelerate the Akash GPU Testnet. 📡These funds will build Akash's AI & ML capabilities, as well as directly incentivize additional GPU supply. ⚙️Join the Testnet to help build the #AISupercloud: Participants can complete tasks in these four categories to earn incentives: → Set up a GPU Provider → Deploy AI models → Build AI deployment templates → Benchmark GPUs using TensorFlow 🔌The Incentivized Akash GPU Testnet is set to launch within the next few weeks. ⏱Incentives will be limited for each task and will be prioritized on a first-come, first-served basis. Sign up to be the first to hear when incentives are live More info here: Link 🅰️🔠🅰️🔠🔠 🔠🔠🔠🔠🔠🔠🔠❗️❗️

Akash has a big week ahead. Tomorrow, stay tuned for the announcement of the Incentivized Akash GPU Testnet. Akash Community Groups meeting this week: wg-akash-website Tuesday, May 30th, 3:30-4:30PM UTC Link to join wg-hackathon Wednesday, May 31st, 4-5PM UTC Link to join

The Akash Network GPU Incentivized Testnet plan is published and open for feedback. Please post your recommendations.

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The groundbreaking work Babylon is doing to bring Bitcoin security to Cosmos ecosystem will unlock new features and greater optionality for $AKT. Akash is proud to integrate with the Babylon Testnet to support these efforts. Babylon 🤝 Akash Network Full article: Link

Akash discord has been compromised. Please do not engage with anyone or anything there until the core team addresses the situation.

🚀 Web3 Unleashed: May 25 @ 12 EST 🚀 Decentralization: Storage, Data, & Identity Ft. Filecoin, Kwil & Akash Network 📦 Decentralized Storage 🔐 Data Privacy & Security 🆔 Digital Identity Join the discussion Link to join

If you're not an #AkashInsider, are you even in crypto? Akash Insiders: 🌍 Represent Akash at crypto events 💾 Learn open-source coding skills 🎓 Develop their crypto careers 🤝 Connect with like-minded people from around the world. Learn more and sign up: https://akash.network/community/insiders/

This week in the Akash Community 🗓 Don't miss the monthly meeting of the Steering Committee this Thursday, along with meetings of the Docs, Providers, and Support groups. For the full schedule, click "Show more" ⤵️ wg-docs-2.0 🗓 Monday, 5/22, 2-3PM UTC Link to join sig-docs 🗓 Tuesday, 5/23, 2-3PM UTC Link to join sig-providers 🗓 Wednesday, 5/24, 3-4PM UTC Link to join sig-support 🗓 Wednesday, 5/24, 4-5PM UTC Link to join Akash Steering Committee 🗓 Thursday, 5/25, 6-7PM UTC Link to join

Hello Akashians, Today marks a milestone for Decentralized Cloud. Akash is the first network to support A100s, the highly coveted GPUs essential for sophisticated AI models. Time to bring out that sparkling wine 🥂

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As the Akash GPU testnet progresses, we'll begin testing open-source AI models in the coming weeks. Starting with: → LLaMA → ControlNet → Stable Diffusion → Dolly v2 Which other open-source AI models would you like to see on Akash? Gihub Link

🔴 Don't miss @gregosuri live with @seb3point0 on The Interop tomorrow at 7:30AM PT! Set your reminders ⤵️

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🎉 Community SIG call kicking off!

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🎓 Akash SIG Education call happening now!

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This week in the Akash community, there are 8 group meetings that are open for anyone to attend — including Education, Design, Analytics, and more. Plus, a new format for our weekly schedule. Press "show more" to see everything happening this week. ⤵️ Today : sig-education: 🗓 Tuesday, 5/9, 5-6PM UTC 👉Link sig-community: 🗓 Tuesday, 5/9, 6-7PM UTC 👉Link

🏗 Hackathon Working Group call in 30min!

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We'll be discussing Roles, Timeline and Next Steps!

👋 Hey Gang! With the approval of the Akash Hackathon Proposal, we're now beginning to work on filling the open roles for hackathon support. If you're interested in support, fill out the below application! 🏗 Hackathon Role Application:

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🌱 Approved Hackathon proposal for review:

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🏗️ Akash Network Proposal #199 has passed. This means Akash Network is going to host a hackathon! 🤝 This is a community owned and developed hackathon. Open for any Akash community members to help organize, develop and manage. 💡 Join our Hackathon Working Group call today @ 11am PST to learn more and get involved

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The next phase of $AKT 2.0 is ready for review and discussion by the Akash community. This phase proposes the creation of the Incentive Distribution Pool (IDP) and Sub-accounts, which will support the growth of the network. Read the full proposal below:

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The open-source development of Akash Console has been attracting an increasing number of community contributors. While there are currently 21 open issues on GitHub, there are two filters that new devs can use to sort the issues and get started today. ⤵️

RT @EVMNext: 📣 Speaker Announcement! We're excited to announce Adam Wozney as a Speaker on our Panel: "Can L1s and Rollups Be Friends?"…

The next phase of $AKT 2.0 is ready for review and discussion by the Akash community. This phase proposes the creation of the Incentive Distribution Pool (IDP) and Sub-accounts, which will support the growth of the network. Read the full proposal below:

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Akash's GPU testnet is ready for Provider onboarding. If you are an Akash Provider with GPUs (or would like to become one), enable GPU support today with the documentation below. 👉

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📣Hey Akash Community! ⚔️ Akash ⁠GPU Testnet is kicking off today! This week is focused on getting providers up and running on the network. Those that submitted the typeform from ⁠wg-gpu in discord have been notified to start building providers. Additional messaging will be going out shortly. Please find build instructions here:

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Starting next Monday, April 24th, 2023, additional testing around demand will happen. The GPU Testnet will be happening until May 7th, 2023 at 11:59pm Pacific Time. 📢 ALL issues related to GPU Testnet should go to "Issues" in Akash-Network/community :

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Please let me know if you have any questions. 📈

1/ This week, the community is hosting the monthly meeting of the Akash Clients group. Additionally, the Kava Validators user group is holding its first meeting, and work continues on

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Join @gregosuri and @_Anil_Murty_, along with many of the leading builders in the Distributed Compute ecosystem, at the DISCO Summit during @consensus2023. RSVP with the link below to attend ⤵️

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Similar to the monetary system, the decentralization of the computing stack is vital for the future of humanity. Join us during Consensus @ the DISCO Summit, ft. the leading builders in the Distributed Compute Ecosystem. Wed, April 26th (12p - 8p) RSVP:

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Are you ready $AKT community?

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Akash GPU Market Testnet will be open to the public this Monday, Apr 17, 2023. We're optimizing for high-density NVIDIA datacenter GPUs before consumer ones with the below priority: 1. H100 2. A100 3. A40 4. A16 5. T4 6. V100 7. Tesla P4 8. Tesla P100 9. Tesla K80 Comment if…

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