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by plywoodtrees 3753 days ago
> The hardware requirements were stunning (280 GPUs and 1920 CPUs for the largest variant)

Stunningly big, or stunningly small?

The CPUs would cost around $65/hour on Google Cloud. I can't immediately find pricing for GPUs on either Amazon or Google, but let's suppose it doubles that price.

It's pretty small potatoes.

Especially if you put it in the context of a project with ~15 researchers.