[kgeist]

We're planning to do the same thing - buy something like 8xH100 and run all coding there. The CTO almost agreed to find the budget for it but I need to make sure there are no risks before we buy (i.e. it's a viable/usable setup for professional AI-assisted coding)

Can you share what models you run and find best performing for this setup? That would help a lot. I already run a smaller AI server in the office but only 32b models fit there. I already have experience optimizing inference, I'm just interested what models you think are great for 8xH100 for coding, I'll figure out the details how to fit it :)

[htrp]

8 x h100 80's don't give you enough to run the latest 1tn + parameter models (especially at the context window lengths to be competitive with the frontier models)

[dools]

Verda has B300 clusters, 8 for USD $55/hour in 10 minute billing blocks

[Havoc]

Deepseek, GLM, Minimax or Kimi are the most likely contenders.

[dools]

I’ve been using kimi 2.5/2.6 for the past 2 weeks and it’s really not far off OpenAI and Claude models. I am a coder so it’s not all vibes but I am definitely more in the “spec to code” mode than “edit this file for me” and it copes just fine. Needs a bit more supervision than the frontier models but it’s also significantly cheaper. If I were anthropic I’d be shitting myself, their prices are going to 10x over the next 2 years

[kakoni]

So are you running Kimi on Verda?

[dools]

Check out Verda you can rent whatever super powerful GPU clusters you need in 10 minute increments. Deploy any open weight model using SGLang and away you go