# AI access is controlled by a few players — not a future to accept

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-01-09
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** Akash: $300 Million Incentives w/Greg Osuri \| CEO of Overclock Labs,Founder & Akash Network (Bare Metal Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:10:06 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gI5CWNpDgw&t=606s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2024-01-09-ai-access-is-controlled-by-a-few-players-not-a-fut-mqj2/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "AI access is controlled by a few players — not a future to accept," Akash: $300 Million Incentives w/Greg Osuri \| CEO of Overclock Labs,Founder & Akash Network (Bare Metal Podcast), 9 Jan 2024, 00:10:06. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gI5CWNpDgw&t=606s

## Quote — verbatim

> GPUs are the fuel for AI. Without GPUs there is no machine learning or AI. So if you think AI is going to be the most important technology stack of our modern society, access to AI is heavily controlled by few players, and that's not a future I want to take.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Answering what Akash's unique selling proposition is; he frames permissionless GPU access as the counter to hyperscaler gatekeeping.