# Akash utilization grew 10% to 70% in 12 months

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-02-26
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Everything Bagel: Open Source AI, Security, and Decentralization with Greg Osuri, Founder at Akash (The Index Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:18:06 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTJaABZMi9c&t=1086s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2025-02-26-akash-utilization-grew-10-to-70-in-12-months-kb4c/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash utilization grew 10% to 70% in 12 months," Everything Bagel: Open Source AI, Security, and Decentralization with Greg Osuri, Founder at Akash (The Index Podcast), 26 Feb 2025, 00:18:06. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTJaABZMi9c&t=1086s

## Quote — verbatim

> Our across-the-board utilization right now is 70%, and that was, what, 10% when we began... per GPU right now is about $20 per day, compared to $10 roughly, that was about 12 months ago.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Quantified network metrics offered as evidence that designing incentives post-product-market-fit works. (The "$20/day" figure sits in the following caption block at 00:18:49.)