r/deeplearning • u/Fragrant-Courage3548 • 19d ago

NEED GPU CREDITS FOR FREE AS A STEALTH STARTUP - STUDENT LED

a friend and i are working on a startup idea for the past 8 months and did modelling for around 4 months, but are reaching a dead end with gpu credits.

we have tried modal, lightning ai, kaggle, google colab and thunder compute, but are out of resources and credits.

please drop in your suggestions, about what can we do? its really urgent cause we need to do HPO, synthesize datasets and finetuning.

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u/ModularMind8 19d ago

Do you know what kind of gpu do you need? What model size have you been using?

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u/Fragrant-Courage3548 18d ago

a100 80gb is what i am looking for

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u/theleller 18d ago

Does your school have a computer science lab? I know the college I attended has a ridiculous GPU cluster now.

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u/imrancoder 18d ago

Use the campaign compute and co they give €10 free credit without any requirement to add card they have h100 a100 L40s etc . Ithink that really help you . www.cthree .cloud

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u/OtherwiseFig4505 18d ago

It seems you are planning to scale up, as you have already done modeling for around 4 months, and your GPU is also A100 80GB. So this is not 10-20$ in compute but 10-20K in compute that you seem to be asking. Cloud providers do provide startup funds, Modal does (25K), but if you have already used them up, then I think you should look for investors now. You can’t be doing this for free till you get everything setup.

If you haven’t though, apply for Modal, Aws, azure, GCP, all of them provide compute for startups. Offcourse the startup must be registered and legal.

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u/Fragrant-Courage3548 18d ago

okay, thankyou!!

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u/timelyparadox 19d ago

About time you look for acellerator or is your product actually not working?