# Clouds selectively gatekeep high-end GPUs; OpenAI got a leg up

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-05-12
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** AI SUPERCLOUD with Greg Osuri of Akash Network (The Interop)
- **Watch at:** 00:13:17 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAuW6cUWkR8&t=797s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2023-05-12-clouds-selectively-gatekeep-high-end-gpus-openai-g-v2lz/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Clouds selectively gatekeep high-end GPUs; OpenAI got a leg up," AI SUPERCLOUD with Greg Osuri of Akash Network (The Interop), 12 May 2023, 00:13:17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAuW6cUWkR8&t=797s

## Quote — verbatim

> Companies today that are doing machine learning cannot get these GPUs, the high-end GPUs we call A100s and H100s, on the cloud unless you have a special deal with someone higher up in one of these cloud providers... they selectively choose which company should be successful. OpenAI got a big leg up because of this reason and that's not fair.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Argument that hyper-concentration in cloud creates censorship by business bias; innovators get priced out of AI compute.