# Cloud providers dictate who gets to train AI

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-09-10
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Akash Network - The Decentralized Compute Marketplace (The Crypto Conversation (Brave New Coin))
- **Watch at:** 00:04:35 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/akash-network-the-decentralized-compute-marketplace/id1471243424?i=1000669078512
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2024-09-10-cloud-providers-dictate-who-gets-to-train-ai-ctcy/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Cloud providers dictate who gets to train AI," Akash Network - The Decentralized Compute Marketplace (The Crypto Conversation (Brave New Coin)), 10 Sept 2024, 00:04:35. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/akash-network-the-decentralized-compute-marketplace/id1471243424?i=1000669078512

## Quote — verbatim

> Who powers these AI machines? You need something called GPUs. How do you get them? You have to go to this cloud provider. And it's nearly impossible for a company to get these GPUs because they're scarce. These cloud providers sell the GPUs to the highest bidder. So they literally dictate today how AI should be trained and who should use AI by choosing who they want to give their GPUs.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Extending the feudalism argument to AI; followed by the invisible-tax claim: "50% of what we pay to online services goes to a cloud provider."