Runner pays $4,500 for a third GPU to run near-frontier models locally
marian_nmt · x · 2026-10-03
- mariannmt says he bought his third GPU two weeks ago for $4,500, joking that "we can't have people running near-frontier models too cheaply" — a jab at the steep hardware cost of running near-frontier models locally.
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