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by AlbertCory 1326 days ago
Like I said: tough tradeoffs.

Maybe now you can't easily access a ginormous cloud of AI-optimized processors (I don't actually know this is true, by the way. Anyone?).

A few years from now, maybe some large player will offer that, and Facebook / Google will be stuck with these big investments while their little competitors just pay for what they use.

I'm not taking a position one way or the other; just saying that it's always a hard call.
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scarface74 1324 days ago
The major cloud providers already offer instances with GPUs. Google is one of the three.

And before anyone says that AWS was an offshoot of Amazon Retails excess capacity, this is an urban myth. AWS was always a separate product with separate servers just for selling to customers.

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