Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups

Re:Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for ... by humanistbot on Sunday July 30, 2023 @04:25PM (#36935570)

From sentence one of the post, it clearly states that they are VC funders who are doing this for a round of startups they just funded, and they're looking for others to be a part of it.

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Re:Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for ... by flaque on Sunday July 30, 2023 @04:26PM (#36935589)

Oh no, definitely not. We just got a loan.

Neither Alex and I are currently VCs, and this has no affiliation with any venture fund.

We want to be a customer of the sf compute group too!

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Re:Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for ... by xwdv on Sunday July 30, 2023 @06:26PM (#36936640)

I’m curious, how are those loans guaranteed?

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Re:Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for ... by opportune on Sunday July 30, 2023 @08:03PM (#36937394)

How’d you get this loan? Is it from a benevolent individual who just wants to make something happen?

If not and you got the loan from a bank, super curious how you were able to get the bank to trust that renting out the GPUs would cover the loan or if some other reasoning convinced them. Assuming you aren’t trying to turn this into a big business, that knowledge might help a lot of other players run similar programs and further democratize SOA GPU access.

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Re:Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for ... by xwdv on Sunday July 30, 2023 @08:52PM (#36937717)

I’m fairly certain this loan is either a private individual or a HELOC or something. No way is a bank just going to loan out a bunch of money to some startup like this.

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