Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups
I hope you succeed. TPU research cloud (TRC) tried this in 2019. It was how I got my start.<p>In 2023 you can barely get a single TPU for more than an hour. Back then you could get literally hundreds, with an s.<p>I believed in TRC. I thought they’d solve it by scaling, and building a whole continent of TPUs. But in the end, TPU time was cut short in favor of internal researchers — some researchers being more equal than others. And how could it be any other way? If I made a proposal today to get these H100s to train GPT to play chess, people would laugh. The world is different now.<p>Your project has a youthful optimism that I hope you won’t lose as you go. And in fact it might be the way to win in the long run. So whenever someone comes knocking, begging for a tiny slice of your H100s for their harebrained idea, I hope you’ll humor them. It’s the only reason I was able to become anybody.