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> Who's the audience for this announcement? Probably whales who can afford to rent one from Google Cloud.
by badlucklottery 1y ago
> Who's the audience for this announcement?
Probably whales who can afford to rent one from Google Cloud.
- jeffbee 1y agoPeople with $3 are whales now? TPU prices are similar to other cloud resources.
- dylan604 1y agoDoes anyone do anything useful with a $3 spend, or is it $3 X $manyManyHours?
- scarmig 1y agoNo one does anything useful with a $3 spend. That's not anything particular to TPUs, though.
- dylan604 1y agoThat's my point. The touting of $3 is beyond misleading.
- fancyfredbot 1y agoYou can do real work for a few hundred dollars which is hardly the exclusive domain of "whales"? The programmer who writes code to run on these likely costs at least 15x this amount an hour.
- MasterScrat 1y agoAn on-demand v5e-1 is $1.2/h, it's pretty accessible. The challenge is getting them to run efficiently, which typically involves learning JAX.