Idle office GPUs earning tokens — a peer-to-peer cloud for AI
Future of Web 3 and the Battle for Data Sovereignty with Greg Osuri, CEO of Akash Networks (Orchid Labs)
“The big problem there is you’re only using [the GPUs] maybe two to three hours a day; 20 hours you’re sitting there idle. In a case like that they can install Akash and essentially earn tokens for this 20 hours, and when they really want to use them they can use the Akash tokens to effectively get the cost low. So this is a scenario where the tenant becomes a provider and vice versa, really creating a true peer-to-peer cloud for AI, and I think that is fundamentally a game changer.” — 00:27:02
Context: ML companies keep GPU racks in their offices to dodge cloud costs; he adds Akash gets “one or two requests a week” for GPU capacity from leads with “millions of dollars worth of spend.”