Training Stable Diffusion: ~$600k, cheaper on Akash
Akash Weekly - November 2nd 2022 (Akash Network)
“A protocol like Stable Diffusion, or a model — it costs about six hundred thousand dollars to get a basic training… with Akash we expect that to be, I don’t know, four hundred thousand dollars, 400 to 500,000 — still a lot of money saving. So HPC makes a lot of sense for us… there’s just enormous amounts of GPUs just sitting there idle.” — 00:34:57
Context: AMA on target customers; adds that GPU users are new cloud users who care about performance and price, not traditional cloud features — a better fit for Akash.