[klingonopera]

Ok, ok, let me see if I now got this right: The AI needs a VM (because users rarely have 12GB GPUs at home), and this VM then downloads about 6GB from GitHub each time a user opens up a new session instead of sourcing that from a locally cached copy?

EDIT: Almost, the VM runs on Colab, which only works with Google, and Google's charging for the upload to Colab? ...more like collaborator, amirite? dodges rotten eggs

[andrekorol]

Yeah, now you almost got it right! Colab is a service provided by Google.

The funny thing is the high egress fees Google charges for transferring data between two of its services (GCS -> Colab).

[klingonopera]

Funny, cheap and cheerful, little hidden costs in the fine-print. Oh my Google, how could we ever be mad at you? opens a can of laughter