Akash saw the GPU era coming in its 2018 whitepaper
[Solo Talk] Decentralization is saving AI where centralization failed by Greg Osuri (Kryptoplanet[Official])
“Akash is a radically new way to share compute. We wrote the white paper in 2018 — we talked about GPUs in 2018 but people didn’t pay attention. They think GPUs came in 2024.” — 00:10:45
Context: Claiming foresight: idle GPUs from miners (Foundry), ML fleet upgrades, and training downtime were always the network’s target supply.