# Akash daily spend grew 10x in a year

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-10-16
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Akash Network's Greg Osuri on AI Fueling 1,729% Growth (Coinage)
- **Watch at:** 00:11:36 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8F-Ac0mitI&t=696s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2024-10-16-akash-daily-spend-grew-10x-in-a-year-wqid/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash daily spend grew 10x in a year," Akash Network's Greg Osuri on AI Fueling 1,729% Growth (Coinage), 16 Oct 2024, 00:11:36. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8F-Ac0mitI&t=696s

## Quote — verbatim

> Last year when we did the interview I think the daily spend was $500; today now it's $5,000 a day — it literally 10x'd over a year... and that's the kind of growth we want to see at an early stage.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Growth metrics; he adds a coming product cuts deploying Llama 3.1 405B (nearly 1TB of weights) from 3-5 hours to 15 seconds.