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Re:EleutherAI One Year Retrospective by lostmsu on Thursday July 08, 2021 @07:58PM (#27779042)
> For some reason, everyone is reluctant to apply

We just don't want another vendor lock-in. Especially for research projects. Maybe if TPUs were sold in the open market.

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Re:EleutherAI One Year Retrospective by stellaathena on Friday July 09, 2021 @02:06AM (#27780873)
Turning down hundreds of thousands of dollars of cloud credits because of vendor lock-in is extremely shortsighted for the overwhelming majority of projects.
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Re:EleutherAI One Year Retrospective by lostmsu on Saturday July 10, 2021 @03:03PM (#27795649)
> extremely shortsighted

I think it is extremely LONG-sighted: an individual research institute might save $100k right now, but the lock-in might force 10x pay in 5 years to continue research. Not to mention it might affect ability of smaller institutes and individual researchers to enter the field, which is also worse for research as whole.

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