AI workloads will dominate Akash on cost: $1/hr A100s vs $4 on AWS
Mission: DeFi EP 92 - Greg Osuri - Akash is taking on the giants in hosted processing (Mission: DeFi)
“We’re seeing quite a lot of AI applications even though… GPUs [are] like a few months away — people are just so excited about it… we anticipate AI is going to be a lot more prominent [a] deployment for Akash just from [the] cost factor… [LLMs] are really good at running on high-end GPUs like Nvidia A100s… on Amazon they cost about four dollars per hour; on Akash [they’ll] actually cost more like a dollar an hour.” — 00:20:39
Context: Weeks before Akash’s GPU testnet; he pushes back on bandwagon framing — “we’ve been talking about GPUs for three years… it seems overnight, it’s always that way.”