General-purpose GPU cloud: spec-ready, 20 customers, no one has done it
Akash Weekly Spaces - June 15th (Akash Network)
“GPUs — we are spec ready. We have about 20 customers that are ready to jump on with GPU… it’s a very complicated feature, especially doing generically schedulable GPUs. No one has done GPUs. Even the people that claim that they have GPUs — most GPUs are only used for mining, and that’s a completely different use case. So designing a general purpose GPU cloud is extremely challenging.” — 00:23:26
Context: June 2022, over a year before Akash’s GPU mainnet; he distinguishes ML-grade scheduling from mining-oriented GPU networks and cites large pent-up spend.