# "Crypto is saving AI" — an A100 for $1.10 on Akash

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-02-14
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** "How to Pivot your Career in Crypto and AI \| Builder's Diary \#9 with Greg Osuri" (Finality Crypto Podcast (DeFi Times))
- **Watch at:** 00:56:32 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-pivot-your-career-in-crypto-and-ai-builders/id1541829695?i=1000645292095
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2024-02-14-crypto-is-saving-ai-an-a100-for-1-10-on-akash-klnh/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, ""Crypto is saving AI" — an A100 for $1.10 on Akash," "How to Pivot your Career in Crypto and AI \| Builder's Diary \#9 with Greg Osuri" (Finality Crypto Podcast (DeFi Times)), 14 Feb 2024, 00:56:32. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-pivot-your-career-in-crypto-and-ai-builders/id1541829695?i=1000645292095

## Quote — verbatim

> Semafor... wrote a piece on how crypto is saving AI. And they interviewed a lot of Akash's users and providers... this was a college student from Columbia that got an A100 \[on\] Akash for like $1.10 or something like that... it just tells you that AI problems are solved with crypto. You know, the supply problems at least.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Evidence for the crypto-x-AI synergy thesis; he extends it to provenance/deepfakes ("What if there's a permanent database that you can write to? Crypto." 00:57:15).