# AI companies' idle GPU clusters become a peer-to-peer cloud

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-03-16
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Greg Osuri, CEO of Akash Network, Decentralized Cloud \| Blockchain Interviews (InvestmentPitch Media)
- **Watch at:** 00:05:43 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAAHMYBOBSo&t=343s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2021-03-16-ai-companies-idle-gpu-clusters-become-a-peer-to-pe-6yge/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "AI companies' idle GPU clusters become a peer-to-peer cloud," Greg Osuri, CEO of Akash Network, Decentralized Cloud \| Blockchain Interviews (InvestmentPitch Media), 16 Mar 2021, 00:05:43. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAAHMYBOBSo&t=343s

## Quote — verbatim

> The model that we envisioned for an AI company to function is more of a peer-to-peer cloud... they have a server from the offices that has GPU clusters... they only use these clusters maybe two or three hours a day while they're training these models... they can install Akash and offer this unused capacity and earn credits in exchange... and they can use these credits for when they want to use peak capacity. That's really when you see providers becoming users and users becoming providers.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

2021 vision for ML as Akash's next use case — companies' own hardware, idle most of the day, feeding a shared compute market.