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Ask HN: What is the best place to play around with AI?
3 points by l1am0 on June 9, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments
I am currently playing around with a few hugging face models on my local laptop (audio processing), and it is super sloooooooow.

Is there a cool kid on the block where to run my python code in the cloud for a few bucks and have it fast?

Don't really care about production ready for now, more a playground.

Obvious choices would be GCP, AWS, but wanted to know if there is something more tailor made.



https://colab.research.google.com/


Maybe something like Runpod or Vast.ai (https://llm-utils.org/List+of+non-serverless+GPU+providers), or one of the serverless things (though beware the cold start times...)


I don't know if it's "the best" option, but a really popular option is Google Colaboratory[1].

[1]: https://colab.research.google.com/


You could try https://beam.cloud (disclaimer, I’m the co-founder)

You can run popular models on remote GPUs from your laptop with two commands. For example:

$ beam create-app stable-diffusion-gpu

$ beam start app.py


Get a desktop computer and put a NVIDIA GPU in it. It is pricey but so are cloud instances with a GPU. Alternately, for some things the M-chips from Apple are pretty good.


https://cloud.lambdalabs.com/ pay as you go for cloud services




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