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You can rent such a system for less than $4/hr. That sounds pretty affordable to me!

That's nearly minimum wage in most western countries, or a really nice living in some countries.

Speaking of the US, it's roughly a price or a hamburger.

If you can't afford a hamburger, your problems are likely not in compressing trillion-parameter models.

Same if you're going to afford a hamburger every hour.

Right, that's about $3k/month.

Running humongous models for the price of a small car? Yes, it's absolutely affordable. It's peanuts for all except the smallest, self-bootstrapped startups. Amortized it's way less than the expenses for data scientist and developers that can actually make full use of the cards.

NVIDIA's price gouging has distorted people's idea of "affordable"