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I'm not sure how accurate this is. I work at a university supporting researchers doing all the typical "AI" research. LLMs, CV, etc. All NVIDIA discounts is the A5000 card for EDU. Maybe one other card they aren't interested in (L40?). Most are buying A6000 and up at consumer prices from companies like Exxact and Supermicro.

I don't think I've seen a single researcher get a free GPU since the V100 era. (DGX-1) system.

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I think this is indeed more of a 2009-2014 thing, and even then it was more "we give you a dozen K40s for your cluster" than "we give you, an individual researcher, a GPU". The stories I've heard of individual researchers asking for free stuff always ended in "no".

I don't see anything unethical about seeding universities (as an organization) with hardware tbh. That's just... grants. Even grants often come in the form of "we fund someone who's doing research on something that's related to us/using our hardware+software".

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