Colab and huggingface are fishing for customers by handing out compute time in these things for free, and getting a militia's worth of tensor-connected memory i

Colab and huggingface are fishing for customers by handing out compute time in these things for free, and getting a militia's worth of tensor-connected memory isn't too expensive if you get provisioned to spin up a p2 on EC2, or presumably azure or gcp. Of course real consumers can't buy the hardware, real consumers don't have AAA credit ratings. You can always eBay a K80 as well if your motherboard supports the >4G decoding switch, but my primary point was about the insane purchasing power that affords large CommSvc sector company the ability to crash the market for a product before anyone even has logistics in place, apparently wishing to gatekeep any applications. - Game devs haven't made any games that stress a cloud gaming environment, they didn't even push VR. - Corporate consumers are hardly adopting AI at all, because there's still barely even a workforce. - Some very vocal people find proof of work a distasteful mechanism to support logistical metacommodity growth.