# AI needs crypto more than crypto needs AI

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-03-27
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** AtomDenver panel: AI 🤝 Crypto (Secret Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:15:24 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=999NHrdnGEo&t=924s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2024-03-27-ai-needs-crypto-more-than-crypto-needs-ai-ygr4/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "AI needs crypto more than crypto needs AI," AtomDenver panel: AI 🤝 Crypto (Secret Network), 27 Mar 2024, 00:15:24. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=999NHrdnGEo&t=924s

## Quote — verbatim

> Crypto, if you think about it, it's incredible at optimizing resources. It goes places where normal centralized software cannot... there's a lot of GPUs that are just sitting idle in the world, so what better way for crypto to unlock that GPUs to come to the market — that's what Akash is doing.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Citing a Semafor article on AI's GPU supply-chain problem having crypto as an "unlikely ally"; on-demand GPUs being nearly impossible to get from Amazon.