CMU professor jokes about funding his lab by reselling B300 compute as DeepSeek tokens
niloofar_mire · x · 2026-10-25
CMU professor Graham Neubig says he bought a B300 machine for his lab to do LLM research — but is now weighing whether to just serve deepseek-v4.1-flash tokens with DeepSeek's new inference code and use the revenue to fund the rest of his lab. Quoting a claim that early GPU lock-ins are printing money as H100/B200/B300 rental prices have risen 2–3x, the thread captures the industry mood that securing compute capacity has become a business model in itself.
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