# 20% of AI companies' margins go to Amazon

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-06-09
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Future of Web 3 and the Battle for Data Sovereignty with Greg Osuri, CEO of Akash Networks (Orchid Labs)
- **Watch at:** 00:09:55 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2AE257OCMA&t=595s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2021-06-09-20-of-ai-companies-margins-go-to-amazon-xun6/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "20% of AI companies' margins go to Amazon," Future of Web 3 and the Battle for Data Sovereignty with Greg Osuri, CEO of Akash Networks (Orchid Labs), 9 Jun 2021, 00:09:55. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2AE257OCMA&t=595s

## Quote — verbatim

> A16z wrote an article recently that basically said 20% of margins for AI companies goes to Amazon. So it is so big that it is actually hurting their viability to exist as a business. It's no longer a secondary cost, it is a primary cost, sometimes much more than payroll... I'm particularly excited about AI workloads.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Setting up his AI-as-the-future-workload thesis; the attribution to the article's author is trimmed from garbled captions ("recent wrote a article").