Totally agree - Flower labs another group actively publishing great stuff and now squarely focused on decentralised training. Should be a major datapoint for everyone still skeptical of the area - flower team is as legitimate as it gets and Nic Lane is pretty much top of the pinnacle in Federated Learning. Every single signal to me is we're about witness a massive academic tipping point into this area on the ML side. Not really even contrarian anymore its moved from that to just clearly early days of what is going to become a major and very impactful field.