The "Akash home model": 40 H200s, 8 local, 32 leased, funded by DeFi
Scaling Web3 and AI through DePIN with Greg Osuri! (Secret Network)
“The Akash home model is, you know, have about 40 GPUs, right, 40 H200s, which cost you about $2 million. Use eight H200s for your local AI… then rest 32, [lease] them out on Akash. You will recoup the investment in about two years. In fact, we can use DeFi rails to even fund the whole thing, so you don’t need to put up front.” — 00:29:46
Context: Quantified blueprint for home compute earning income; he adds that verification (TEEs/ZK) is only needed for the leased portion serving third-party training runs.