# Akash is the Airbnb for high-end GPUs

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-09-25
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Greg Osuri, Founder and CEO of Akash Network (Proof of Coverage)
- **Watch at:** 00:14:51 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greg-osuri-founder-and-ceo-of-akash-network/id1645459705?i=1000629088449
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2023-09-25-akash-is-the-airbnb-for-high-end-gpus-adn4/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash is the Airbnb for high-end GPUs," Greg Osuri, Founder and CEO of Akash Network (Proof of Coverage), 25 Sept 2023, 00:14:51. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greg-osuri-founder-and-ceo-of-akash-network/id1645459705?i=1000629088449

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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]).