# The 2018 whitepaper called the ML/GPU boom seven years early

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-06-11
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** "Keynote from Greg Osuri: \\"Journey to Acceleration & Beyond\\" - Akash Accelerate '24" (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:06:31 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04-IN8Btp3U&t=391s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2024-06-11-the-2018-whitepaper-called-the-ml-gpu-boom-seven-y-vdrv/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The 2018 whitepaper called the ML/GPU boom seven years early," "Keynote from Greg Osuri: \\"Journey to Acceleration & Beyond\\" - Akash Accelerate '24" (Akash Network), 11 Jun 2024, 00:06:31. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04-IN8Btp3U&t=391s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Retrospective on his own prediction record; paired with the Cornell "supercloud" concept the paper adopted. Quote spans into the [00:07:12] block.