On: Introducing OpenAI

[argonaut]

I'm not aware of any research lab that uses AWS for these things. It's cheaper to just buy the GPU yourself.

[yeukhon → argonaut]

But you don't change the GPU yourself :-) you use it as a service. That's the good part, although the spec is not very good.

[jedberg → argonaut]

AWS is a sponsor of this, which probably means a bunch of free resources.

[argonaut → jedberg]

g2.8xlarge also only has 4GB of VRAM per GPU, which is too small for most recent deep learning models. The TitanX GPU has 12GB, by comparison.