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Re:Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances by jldugger on Friday May 05, 2023 @06:06PM (#35835678)
AFAICT, its more that they can't keep GPUs in stock. Even large users of GPU have to request quotas in new AZs.
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Re:Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances by narrator on Friday May 05, 2023 @10:56PM (#35837521)
Lambdalabs used to have spot instances for GPUs and now they are completely sold out. Even vast.ai hardly has any A100 instances. We are starting to see paperclip maximizer economics start with GPUs since they are so damned useful.
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Re:Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK on Saturday May 06, 2023 @01:30AM (#35838329)
Well, paperclips are clearly useful, not so sure about ChatGPTs ... so far looks like their effect is net negative - more cheating and more spam of all kinds.
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