# ML on Akash in six months, fueled by the Ethereum merge's stranded GPUs

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-10-12
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Blockchain & Cloud Computing - Akash Network W/ Greg Osuri (Arcane Bear)
- **Watch at:** 00:29:49 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO-UpAZx-KM&t=1789s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2021-10-12-ml-on-akash-in-six-months-fueled-by-the-ethereum-m-qs2s/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "ML on Akash in six months, fueled by the Ethereum merge's stranded GPUs," Blockchain & Cloud Computing - Akash Network W/ Greg Osuri (Arcane Bear), 12 Oct 2021, 00:29:49. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO-UpAZx-KM&t=1789s

## Quote — verbatim

> We're going to have machine learning in another six months hopefully... Ethereum is coming off proof of work to proof of stake, and that's going to unleash a humongous amount of GPU systems that were primarily used for mining... having machine learning run on these GPU instances at 20% lower cost is going to be a huge win, and we have enterprise customers lined up.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

October 2021 roadmap answer; he later adds "one of these verticals is going to take off — I have a good feeling on machine learning." (GPU mainnet actually shipped in 2023.)