<story><title>Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/05/coreweaves-1-1b-raise-shows-the-market-for-alternative-clouds-is-booming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gbox4</author><text>A funny comment from that article:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;On CoreWeave, renting an Nvidia A100 40GB — one popular choice for model training and inferencing — costs $2.39 per hour, which works out to $1,200 per month. On Azure, the same GPU costs $3.40 per hour, or $2,482 per month; on Google Cloud, it’s $3.67 per hour, or $2,682 per month.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something? I am sure I&amp;#x27;m a bit rusty in math, but I can still handle a calculator. ~720 hours in a month (roughly), and that means CoreWeave would cost $1,720.80 per month, Azure is $2,448 per month, and Google Cloud is $2,642.40 per month.&lt;p&gt;Why are all of these numbers reported in the article off?  Some slightly--Azure and Google Cloud are close, but CoreWeave is off by about 30%.  I won&amp;#x27;t go further into the numbers as to why the author came up with these results, but I&amp;#x27;m just wondering if this article was written by AI, which would explain why basic multiplication is incorrect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coffeebeqn</author><text>Have you ever asked a LLM to calculate costs for you? This is it exactly what it looks like</text></comment>
<story><title>Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/05/coreweaves-1-1b-raise-shows-the-market-for-alternative-clouds-is-booming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gbox4</author><text>A funny comment from that article:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;On CoreWeave, renting an Nvidia A100 40GB — one popular choice for model training and inferencing — costs $2.39 per hour, which works out to $1,200 per month. On Azure, the same GPU costs $3.40 per hour, or $2,482 per month; on Google Cloud, it’s $3.67 per hour, or $2,682 per month.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something? I am sure I&amp;#x27;m a bit rusty in math, but I can still handle a calculator. ~720 hours in a month (roughly), and that means CoreWeave would cost $1,720.80 per month, Azure is $2,448 per month, and Google Cloud is $2,642.40 per month.&lt;p&gt;Why are all of these numbers reported in the article off?  Some slightly--Azure and Google Cloud are close, but CoreWeave is off by about 30%.  I won&amp;#x27;t go further into the numbers as to why the author came up with these results, but I&amp;#x27;m just wondering if this article was written by AI, which would explain why basic multiplication is incorrect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fancyfredbot</author><text>The whole thing is nuts. They have the wrong costs multiplied by the wrong time period to get the wrong answers. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;coreweave.com&amp;#x2F;gpu-cloud-pricing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;coreweave.com&amp;#x2F;gpu-cloud-pricing&lt;/a&gt; says an A100 40GB NVLink is $2.06 whereas the article says $2.39.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s $1483.20 a month, whereas the article says $1200 and should say $1720  if they&amp;#x27;d got the maths right.</text></comment>