# Akash as the world's first open GPU secondary market

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-06-15
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** RNDR, Supercloud, 1.5T AI Market Cap – Interview with Greg Osuri about Akash (Design DAO)
- **Watch at:** 00:35:16 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCHnfFIavA8&t=2116s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2023-06-15-akash-as-the-world-s-first-open-gpu-secondary-mark-wd7a/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash as the world's first open GPU secondary market," RNDR, Supercloud, 1.5T AI Market Cap – Interview with Greg Osuri about Akash (Design DAO), 15 Jun 2023, 00:35:16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCHnfFIavA8&t=2116s

## Quote — verbatim

> A secondary market is very important now to solve the supply chain problem, and that's what Akash is solving. Akash is the world's first open secondary market for advanced, high-density GPUs like A100s and H100s. And that's just a start — the user comes to the chips but stays for everything else.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Companies locked into big cloud GPU commitments they don't fully use, and ML companies hoarding chips, need a way to lease them out without losing ownership.