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They probably started looking at their GCP bill
by syspec 5y ago
They probably started looking at their GCP bill
- tux3 5y agoIf that's the case, and not a deliberate aggressive strategy to acquire users ("bait and switch"), Colab users playing with GPT on free TPUs and GPUs should be by far the most worried. The cost of storage at Google's scale is low. GPUs/TPUs are another thing entirely.
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- echelon 5y agoThe community of https://fakeyou.com https://fakeyou.com users has been using Colab to train TTS models. Changes late last year to available free instance types forced most of our users to have to pay for the pro plan.
- morbia 5y agoStorage is cheap, but egress/ingress in and out of gcp is not. I suspect the real reason Google are doing this is a mixture of the two, to reduce network costs and because they've got enough users now.