# GPUs will be Akash's Netflix moment

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-11-21
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Ask Akash: Thoughts on usage metrics over the last year (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:10:04 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB45bmSF4uY&t=604s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2022-11-21-gpus-will-be-akash-s-netflix-moment-fa72/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "GPUs will be Akash's Netflix moment," Ask Akash: Thoughts on usage metrics over the last year (Akash Network), 21 Nov 2022, 00:10:04. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB45bmSF4uY&t=604s

## Quote — verbatim

> A critical event that took Amazon to the next level is Netflix... that one story put Amazon on a different planet. Similarly, Akash — the story is going to be one of the users on Akash... doing incredible things to get a competitive advantage over their competitors that are using the traditional cloud, and those stories are going to get Akash... exponential. I think we're gonna see GPUs really deliver that Netflix for Akash.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Explaining why flat 2022 metrics don't matter: cloud adoption is non-linear and needs a marquee use case, which he predicts GPUs will provide.