# First-ever open market for GPUs

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-08-31
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Mainnet 6 Livestream (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 02:49:28 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqKYTTQUwCM&t=10168s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2023-08-31-first-ever-open-market-for-gpus-nxy2/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "First-ever open market for GPUs," Akash Mainnet 6 Livestream (Akash Network), 31 Aug 2023, 02:49:28. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqKYTTQUwCM&t=10168s

## Quote — verbatim

> The biggest and the most exciting feature is the GPU marketplace. This is, I believe, the first instance of an open market for GPUs. There is no open source market right now available, centralized or decentralized, so this is the first time ever the world is experiencing what an open market for GPUs looks like, and it is coming amid the biggest supply crisis we have for GPUs.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Pre-upgrade feature overview; he frames the GPU supply crisis as "a symptom of inefficient distribution" where cloud providers failed, creating the opening for an open network.