# Claimed 2018 call that ML would drive GPU demand

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-05-29
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Akash Accelerate '24: Official Livestream (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:09:03 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60mmj3bNzB0&t=543s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2024-05-29-claimed-2018-call-that-ml-would-drive-gpu-demand-iv64/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Claimed 2018 call that ML would drive GPU demand," Akash Accelerate '24: Official Livestream (Akash Network), 29 May 2024, 00:09:03. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60mmj3bNzB0&t=543s

## Quote — verbatim

> In 2018 in our white paper we talked about primary use case being machine learning. We anticipated the need for GPUs... the cost of GPUs and cost of compute was only going to go up for machine learning because the data sets are just getting larger and larger... we specified the primary use case for Akash is machine learning — it just took seven years to realize that.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Greg retrospectively cites the whitepaper as predicting the GPU shortage/AI compute boom that materialized in 2023-24.