# AI products will be forced to distributed clusters by unit economics

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-10-26
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** How Akash Network is Democratizing Access to Cloud GPUs \| Greg Osuri (0xResearch)
- **Watch at:** 00:15:19 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRA0yN28Dw8&t=919s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2023-10-26-ai-products-will-be-forced-to-distributed-clusters-ihm3/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "AI products will be forced to distributed clusters by unit economics," How Akash Network is Democratizing Access to Cloud GPUs \| Greg Osuri (0xResearch), 26 Oct 2023, 00:15:19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRA0yN28Dw8&t=919s

## Quote — verbatim

> Copilot is one of those products I use on almost a daily basis... I pay about $8 per month for GitHub and it costs about $20 per month per user to produce it. So on unit economics they're taking a loss... How do you optimize it? You have to go for something that's a lot less expensive, and the way you do that is by distributing your clusters and taking advantage of something like Akash.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His thesis that the industry is "optimizing iteration over productization" now, but as models productize, cost pressure drives workloads to decentralized/distributed compute. Quote spans into [00:16:02](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRA0yN28Dw8&t=962s).