Open research needs open compute
Proprietary clouds gatekeep progress behind high costs and black-box infrastructure. Akash provides universities with the raw GPU power required for the next breakthrough on a protocol built for transparency.
No single-provider dependency
Eliminate dependency on single-provider pricing or availability. Access NVIDIA H100 and A100 GPUs on a global marketplace where access is always permissionless.
Lower infrastructure cost
Allocate more budget to research and less to infrastructure overhead. By using capacity that would otherwise sit idle, institutions scale simulations and training at a fraction of legacy costs.
Verifiable Science
Align your stack with the values of open science. Every deployment is transparent, verifiable, and runs on standard container architecture with no proprietary lock-in.
Protocol Experience
Teach students infrastructure as code and market-based resource allocation. Move beyond basic dashboards to provide hands-on experience with real-world distributed systems.
"Akash is poised to be the decentralized AI solution for the world. I'm working to team with Akash to bring the world's best AI startups to Akash away from centralized providers."
SRIRAM VISHWANATH
Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Decentralized AI, Privacy Preserving Learning & Applications to Healthcare
Speaker Spotlight Akash Accelerate 2024: Sriram Vishwanath, Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
View on YoutubeAkash Student Ambassador Program
Move beyond the classroom. Join the Akash Student Ambassador Program to lead campus initiatives and access professional-grade GPU infrastructure.
Student Ambassadors
Lead the movement on your campus. As an ambassador, you host local events, publish technical content, and bridge the gap between your university and the open marketplace. You don't just represent the network; you help build the ecosystem from the ground up.
Technical Exposure
Get direct experience with production GPU infrastructure and decentralized protocols. Access the tools and mentorship required to move beyond classroom theory into real-world distributed systems engineering.
Academic Collaboration
Empowering institutions and students to lead the transition to the open cloud.
Research Grants
We fund the builders and researchers pushing the boundaries of decentralized AI and open-source infrastructure. Claim the compute required for your breakthrough.
Apply for a grantCurriculum Integration
Bring the open cloud into the classroom. We provide the tools and technical support to integrate decentralized computing into engineering and computer science courses.
Talk to usStudent Hackathons
Host workshops and challenges that give students direct access to high-performance GPUs to build, test, and ship their own models.
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Grants, classroom access, and hackathon support for academic institutions.