# In a year or two Akash becomes the secondary market for cloud-grade compute

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-05-12
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** AI SUPERCLOUD with Greg Osuri of Akash Network (The Interop)
- **Watch at:** 00:31:16 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAuW6cUWkR8&t=1876s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2023-05-12-in-a-year-or-two-akash-becomes-the-secondary-marke-7uok/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "In a year or two Akash becomes the secondary market for cloud-grade compute," AI SUPERCLOUD with Greg Osuri of Akash Network (The Interop), 12 May 2023, 00:31:16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAuW6cUWkR8&t=1876s

## Quote — verbatim

> I think in a year or two timeframe you're going to see quite a lot of \[hyperscaler\] participation... and as that progresses it's not hard to see how Akash becomes a second market for cloud-grade compute.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

He argues the supercloud needs participation from "the big guys" or it stays a fringe network; says cloud-provider employees privately acknowledge the problem.