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Ask HN: What is the best place to play around with AI?

3 pointsby l1am0almost 2 years ago
I am currently playing around with a few hugging face models on my local laptop (audio processing), and it is super sloooooooow.<p>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?<p>Don&#x27;t really care about production ready for now, more a playground.<p>Obvious choices would be GCP, AWS, but wanted to know if there is something more tailor made.

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boplicityalmost 2 years ago
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;colab.research.google.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;colab.research.google.com&#x2F;</a>
tikkunalmost 2 years ago
Maybe something like Runpod or Vast.ai (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;llm-utils.org&#x2F;List+of+non-serverless+GPU+providers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;llm-utils.org&#x2F;List+of+non-serverless+GPU+providers</a>), or one of the serverless things (though beware the cold start times...)
mindcrimealmost 2 years ago
I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s &quot;the best&quot; option, but a really popular option is Google Colaboratory[1].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;colab.research.google.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;colab.research.google.com&#x2F;</a>
Mernitalmost 2 years ago
You could try <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beam.cloud">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beam.cloud</a> (disclaimer, I’m the co-founder)<p>You can run popular models on remote GPUs from your laptop with two commands. For example:<p>$ beam create-app stable-diffusion-gpu<p>$ beam start app.py
PaulHoulealmost 2 years ago
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.
ashbotalmost 2 years ago
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.lambdalabs.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.lambdalabs.com&#x2F;</a> pay as you go for cloud services