# AI workloads will dominate Akash on cost: $1/hr A100s vs $4 on AWS

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-03-30
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Mission: DeFi EP 92 - Greg Osuri - Akash is taking on the giants in hosted processing (Mission: DeFi)
- **Watch at:** 00:20:39 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVH1OYhNOeE&t=1239s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2023-03-30-ai-workloads-will-dominate-akash-on-cost-1-hr-a100-bccd/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "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), 30 Mar 2023, 00:20:39. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVH1OYhNOeE&t=1239s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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."