# Heterogeneous compute can never be fully commoditized

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-10-28
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** 1on1 Greg Osuri - Akash (Jerry V Hall)
- **Watch at:** 00:11:09 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubYh3RfdQHA&t=669s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2023-10-28-heterogeneous-compute-can-never-be-fully-commoditi-gije/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Heterogeneous compute can never be fully commoditized," 1on1 Greg Osuri - Akash (Jerry V Hall), 28 Oct 2023, 00:11:09. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubYh3RfdQHA&t=669s

## Quote — verbatim

> I don't think we will ever have a way to measure heterogeneous computing... you're never going to have a way to measure diamonds, for example... that's why Akash doesn't have a matching engine, it has a bidding engine — it really comes down to the user to select the provider because the variability is incredibly high.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Long exchange on units of compute; commoditization only works at high abstraction layers (hashes, teraflops), so no homogeneous order book is possible for general compute.