# Akash saw the GPU era coming in its 2018 whitepaper

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-07-22
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** \[Solo Talk\] Decentralization is saving AI where centralization failed by Greg Osuri (Kryptoplanet\[Official\])
- **Watch at:** 00:10:45 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAOp0b8Bb6k&t=645s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2024-07-22-akash-saw-the-gpu-era-coming-in-its-2018-whitepape-nruq/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash saw the GPU era coming in its 2018 whitepaper," \[Solo Talk\] Decentralization is saving AI where centralization failed by Greg Osuri (Kryptoplanet\[Official\]), 22 Jul 2024, 00:10:45. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAOp0b8Bb6k&t=645s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Claiming foresight: idle GPUs from miners (Foundry), ML fleet upgrades, and training downtime were always the network's target supply.