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by pessimizer 1180 days ago
Or from another perspective, comparing the cost of training one model in the cloud to the cost of training as many as you want on your machine, then (as mentioned by siblings) selling the machine for nearly as much as you paid for it, unless there's some shortage, in which case you'll get more back than you paid for it.

One is buying capital that produces models, the other is buying a single model.