The peer-to-peer machine learning cloud
AKASH NETWORK (AKT) - Decentralized clouds, Staking, Cosmos & more! - Interview with CEO Greg Osuri (Michaël van de Poppe)
“20% of revenues for these machine learning companies is going to the cloud… We’d love for these companies to install Akash and earn the tokens when they’re not using [their servers], and when they want to peak they can use these tokens to actually get compute. This is the use case where the provider becomes a tenant and vice versa, creating a truly peer-to-peer cloud.” — 00:46:37
Context: The 2021 GPU roadmap item (a16z report on ML cloud spend cited): ML companies’ office GPU servers idle ~21 hours a day; enabling this required solving GPU multi-tenancy. GPUs eventually shipped on Akash in 2023.