# General-purpose GPU cloud: spec-ready, 20 customers, no one has done it

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-06-16
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly Spaces - June 15th (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:23:26 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5_GlfUj5to&t=1406s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2022-06-16-general-purpose-gpu-cloud-spec-ready-20-customers-q5ts/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "General-purpose GPU cloud: spec-ready, 20 customers, no one has done it," Akash Weekly Spaces - June 15th (Akash Network), 16 Jun 2022, 00:23:26. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5_GlfUj5to&t=1406s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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.