# Akash is eBay for GPUs

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-11-09
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Why Decentralized AI Needs Cosmos: Greg Osuri of Akash Explains (The Interop)
- **Watch at:** 00:08:08 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_gGBRqzxrQ&t=488s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2024-11-09-akash-is-ebay-for-gpus-iycn/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash is eBay for GPUs," Why Decentralized AI Needs Cosmos: Greg Osuri of Akash Explains (The Interop), 9 Nov 2024, 00:08:08. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_gGBRqzxrQ&t=488s

## Quote — verbatim

> There are lots of underutilized GPUs out there, and Akash has a capability to federate them and offer them at a significantly lower price than what you would otherwise pay for a new GPU. Akash is a used GPU market... it's eBay for GPUs without a physical delivery.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Explaining Akash's role for Nvidia: monetizing GPUs idle between training runs or superseded by newer generations.