The cheapest one I see on ebay is $40,000... so yes, I'd say you need some pretty rich friends.
Nope. You can run local LLMs on a 5060 Ti. No need for a 40k GPU.
I read that as "you really don't" need rich friends to buy a H200. I see what you meant now. Sorry about that. The shit you hear people say in SV sometimes is wild.
I run them on my 5070. They're moderately useful at that scale I guess.