World's first open GPU marketplace coming — customers spend $1-2M/month on GPUs
The Biz Call: 20210428 GregOsuri AkashNetwork (robfrankel)
“Later this year we’re coming up with GPU marketplace — it’ll be the world’s first open marketplace for GPU compute, and it’s a big deal because the GPU segment is suffering right now… 20 percent of their margins go to Amazon, and we have enormous capacity, enormous GPU demand, where some of the customers are spending about a million to two million dollars a month on GPU right now — they want to come to Akash.” — 00:17:02
Context: April 2021 preannouncement of the GPU marketplace, well before the AI boom; paired with his “invisible tax to Amazon” line at [00:10:37].