Akash was built for machine learning from the 2017 white paper
Akash Network - Chat With a Founder Greg Osuri (Don Cryptonium)
“It’s funny that Akash seems like GPUs overnight, but if you look at our white paper, the first section that talks about motivation — we talk about Akash, it’s primarily built for machine learning. This is published in 2017, 2018.” — 00:24:21
Context: Pushing back on the idea that Akash pivoted opportunistically to AI when the ChatGPT wave hit.