# 2018 whitepaper called the ML compute crunch

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-06-09
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Akash Accelerate '24: Official Recap (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:07:15 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVYeAVvuNLI&t=435s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2024-06-09-2018-whitepaper-called-the-ml-compute-crunch-2eia/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "2018 whitepaper called the ML compute crunch," Akash Accelerate '24: Official Recap (Akash Network), 9 Jun 2024, 00:07:15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVYeAVvuNLI&t=435s

## Quote — verbatim

> We anticipated the need for GPUs because the data was incredible... 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 recounting that the 2018 Akash whitepaper named machine learning as the primary use case, a retrospective claim of an early forecast.