[yanslookup]

As a counterpoint I completely understand how a founder of a company that is competing with Google on cloud AI cluster services is contributing to the discussion by describing (and I guess looking for feedback, investors, new customers, etc. This is HN...) their inventive approaches to providing similar "credit" like incentives in the article.

Their startup isn't Google. To me, it's interesting to hear how startups are competing with Google.

[latchkey]

Thanks for the comment. I honestly don't see my company as a competitor to Google though.

We're serving the need for individuals and businesses that don't want to use Google in the first place ^. Those of us who feel that there should be alternative hardware available other than just Nvidia, or even cloud solutions. We give full bare metal access to the underlying systems. We work with customers to customize their stack to tailor things to their use case. We're more 1on1 niche and solving for the least common denominator, with best-in-class solutions. Eventually, we are going to run hardware that others wouldn't normally touch and/or we are going to work to get it deployed earlier than any large cloud can.

^ Just as a side note, I'm a long time huge fan and customer of GCP, so please don't take this as bashing Google at all.

[yanslookup]

You listed things that are differentiators... to your competitors.

But ok, best of luck!

[latchkey]

I'm not sure I understand your comment. I don't know of any competitors in the US. I was responding to you saying that my company is competing with Google, and explain how I'm not, so yes, those are things that are differentiators. I'd love to know what's wrong with what I said.