A thousand providers within 12 months; more distributed than Amazon
Mission: DeFi EP 92 - Greg Osuri - Akash is taking on the giants in hosted processing (Mission: DeFi)
“It is the largest market — we have about 50 providers right now… and that’s growing very quickly, and with incentives we expect at least a thousand provider footprint in the next 12 months… it will be the most distributed network. I think from a regional distribution, Akash is a lot more distributed than Amazon’s… the way we’re trending, it’s only a matter of time.” — 00:13:31
Context: Right after the Airbnb-vs-Hilton analogy for Akash vs AWS; a quantified 12-month forecast made March 2023. He later notes low-end pricing “85% cheaper than Amazon” with high-end options 2-3x more (00:17:05).