The 2018 whitepaper called the ML/GPU boom seven years early
"Keynote from Greg Osuri: \"Journey to Acceleration & Beyond\" - Akash Accelerate '24" (Akash Network)
“In 2018, in our white paper, we talked about the primary use case being machine learning… we anticipated the need for GPUs because the data was incredible, it was very transparent — 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 as machine learning. It just took seven years to realize that.” — 00:06:31
Context: Retrospective on his own prediction record; paired with the Cornell “supercloud” concept the paper adopted. Quote spans into the [00:07:12] block.