Akash is the Airbnb for high-end GPUs
Greg Osuri, Founder and CEO of Akash Network (Proof of Coverage)
“You get an apartment for a year and you only go there maybe two months of the year… You can put them on Airbnb. Similarly, Akash is in the Airbnb for high-end [GPUs]. Now you get into these long contracts because you cannot get them on Amazon… and now what do you do with these unused chips? You put them on Akash.” — 00:14:51
Context: His Manhattan-apartment analogy for the GPU sub-leasing thesis, following the argument that startups iterating on fast-moving models (Llama 2, Falcon) can’t predict capacity a year out ([00:14:06]).