# ML companies should own their own GPUs for sovereignty

- **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:** 00:28:28 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAuW6cUWkR8&t=1708s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2023-05-12-ml-companies-should-own-their-own-gpus-for-soverei-2uxj/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "ML companies should own their own GPUs for sovereignty," AI SUPERCLOUD with Greg Osuri of Akash Network (The Interop), 12 May 2023, 00:28:28. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAuW6cUWkR8&t=1708s

## Quote — verbatim

> Soon I think a real vision is machine learning companies should own their own GPUs, because that's ultimately where the sovereignty stands... when they're not using it \[they can provide it to Akash\].

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Discussing Akash as a secondary market for pre-committed/unused GPU capacity (Lambda Labs customers, banks financing GPU purchases serviced by Akash revenue).