Cloud is modern society's fabric, 80% controlled by four companies
Mission: DeFi EP 98 - Can Akash be a major player in AI with their GPU market? Founder Greg Osuri (Mission: DeFi)
“The whole point of Akash is to remove the heavy concentration of power… compute cloud today is a fabric of modern society — our data, your data, everything runs [on it] and there’s no going back… the concentrated compute power: Amazon, Google, Microsoft control over 80% of the market today.” — 00:29:45
Context: Answering whether Akash’s role is to decentralize access to GPU power; same riff opens the episode as the cold-open clip. He adds startups can’t get 10 H100s at $3/hr on AWS or GCP without ~$3M commitments.