# Frontier launches on NVIDIA; mass adoption spreads to cheaper GPUs

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-12-11
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** How Akash Skynet will unleash an AI future no one is prepared for (Interchain.FM)
- **Watch at:** 00:59:28 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-akash-skynet-will-unleash-an-ai-future-no-one-is/id1487731469?i=1000638190791
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2023-12-11-frontier-launches-on-nvidia-mass-adoption-spreads-t6ni/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Frontier launches on NVIDIA; mass adoption spreads to cheaper GPUs," How Akash Skynet will unleash an AI future no one is prepared for (Interchain.FM), 11 Dec 2023, 00:59:28. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-akash-skynet-will-unleash-an-ai-future-no-one-is/id1487731469?i=1000638190791

## Quote — verbatim

> That's why all the best applications are always launched on Apple... I think that's going to be a pattern where the latest and the greatest is going to be launched on NVIDIA. But most adoption is going to happen across different GPUs. It has to, because it's not sustainable the way it is right now.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

NVIDIA-as-Apple analogy (CUDA's vertical integration vs. AMD's "embarrassingly bad" SDK); he cites Alpaca fine-tuning in ~10 minutes on an H100 vs. ~5 hours on cheap GPUs as the optionality trade-off ([01:00:12]–[01:01:00]).