# Priced-out builders prove decentralization works — the Cornell-to-Nvidia story

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-12-03
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** The Truth About Decentralized AI and the Future of Compute (TEACHMEDEFI)
- **Watch at:** 00:07:18 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWA3IAr9sc4&t=438s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2025-12-03-priced-out-builders-prove-decentralization-works-t-y5rf/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Priced-out builders prove decentralization works — the Cornell-to-Nvidia story," The Truth About Decentralized AI and the Future of Compute (TEACHMEDEFI), 3 Dec 2025, 00:07:18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWA3IAr9sc4&t=438s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

On the 2023 GPU shortage that created the neoclouds (CoreWeave et al.) and put Akash on the map.