# Akash's services economy will make open source sustainable

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-03-17
- **Theme:** Open-Source AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/
- **Source:** Why the Future of AI Depends on Decentralized Cloud Platforms (Eye on AI)
- **Watch at:** 00:47:56 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq0UByMDUv4&t=2876s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/2025-03-17-akash-s-services-economy-will-make-open-source-sus-gsve/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash's services economy will make open source sustainable," Why the Future of AI Depends on Decentralized Cloud Platforms (Eye on AI), 17 Mar 2025, 00:47:56. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq0UByMDUv4&t=2876s

## Quote — verbatim

> We have to create an economy for open source contributors to be able to sustain themselves, to build open source software, and I think that is what Akash is going to transition to with the services economy, and that's coming next year.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Argues no pure open-source company besides Linux has survived (Docker, Kubernetes cited); services (databases, inference, agent hosting) on Akash would pay open-source developers directly, lifting revenue per GPU from $20/day toward $50-100.