Priced-out builders prove decentralization works — the Cornell-to-Nvidia story
The Truth About Decentralized AI and the Future of Compute (TEACHMEDEFI)
“There are kids in colleges [who] couldn’t get access to GPUs on Amazon because Amazon would only select the customers based on who pays the highest… one student from Cornell couldn’t get GPUs on Amazon, came to Akash, could get his GPUs, built a company that eventually sold to Nvidia… it’s clear that decentralization is working for people that centralization has failed.” — 00:07:18
Context: On the 2023 GPU shortage that created the neoclouds (CoreWeave et al.) and put Akash on the map.