# GPUs are the new oil; sovereign AI

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-10-26
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** How Akash Network is Democratizing Access to Cloud GPUs \| Greg Osuri (0xResearch)
- **Watch at:** 00:36:08 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRA0yN28Dw8&t=2168s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2023-10-26-gpus-are-the-new-oil-sovereign-ai-3b7r/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "GPUs are the new oil; sovereign AI," How Akash Network is Democratizing Access to Cloud GPUs \| Greg Osuri (0xResearch), 26 Oct 2023, 00:36:08. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRA0yN28Dw8&t=2168s

## Quote — verbatim

> GPUs are the new oil, and whoever has GPUs essentially controls their destiny in terms of their AI. I'm a big believer in sovereignty when it comes to AI. I'm a big believer in decentralized compute networks where I should own the A100s or H100s that train my AI, and I want to control the cost.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

On why the decentralized training experiment matters — AI is "a new technology stack emerging post-web3" and this generation has a viable decentralized option from the start.