Akash is the Airbnb of GPU contracts
1on1 Greg Osuri - Akash (Jerry V Hall)
“Akash is a secondary market — it is like Airbnb… you’ll get an apartment for a year because there’s no other way to get them, and now what do you do the 11 months of the year when you’re not in the apartment? You lease it out.” — 00:38:17
Context: Startups forced into year-long prepaid GPU contracts offload unused capacity on Akash; one of five provider types he lists, including miners post-merge and ML firms leasing depreciated A100s for tax advantages.