What is the best place to play around with AI?

Question

I am currently playing around with a few hugging face models on my local laptop (audio processing), and it is super sloooooooow.Is there a cool kid on the block where to run my python code in the cloud for a few bucks and have it fast?Don't really care about production ready for now, more a playground.Obvious choices would be GCP, AWS, but wanted to know if there is something more tailor made.

boplicity · Accepted Answer

https://colab.research.google.com/

tikkun · Answer

Maybe something like Runpod or Vast.ai (https://llm-utils.org/List+of+non-serverless+GPU+providers), or one of the serverless things (though beware the cold start times...)

mindcrime · Answer

I don't know if it's "the best" option, but a really popular option is Google Colaboratory[1].[1]: https://colab.research.google.com/

Mernit · Answer

You could try https://beam.cloud (disclaimer, I’m the co-founder)
You can run popular models on remote GPUs from your laptop with two commands. For example:
$ beam create-app stable-diffusion-gpu
$ beam start app.py

PaulHoule · Answer

Get a desktop computer and put a NVIDIA GPU in it. It is pricey but so are cloud instances with a GPU. Alternately, for some things the M-chips from Apple are pretty good.

ashbot · Answer

https://cloud.lambdalabs.com/ pay as you go for cloud services