# GPUs at 5x price; Akash uniquely taps unused general-purpose GPU capacity

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-11-13
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Ask Akash - What is Akash's strategy going forward? (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:05:49 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsO-LKTI4sQ&t=349s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2022-11-13-gpus-at-5x-price-akash-uniquely-taps-unused-genera-nmpg/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "GPUs at 5x price; Akash uniquely taps unused general-purpose GPU capacity," Ask Akash - What is Akash's strategy going forward? (Akash Network), 13 Nov 2022, 00:05:49. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsO-LKTI4sQ&t=349s

## Quote — verbatim

> This \[is a\] massive underserved market that's struggling. I talked \[to\] people from big cloud providers to small ones... everybody is struggling to get GPUs. GPUs are still 5x price from their market... and Akash is the only way that can tap into unused GPU capacity... these are general purpose GPUs that allow you to run TensorFlow or machine learning applications — the first time an open platform can do that.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Pre-GPU-launch (GPUs were next on the roadmap after IP addresses); machine learning framed as the unlock after web3 node workloads.