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Nvidia launches first SaaS Offering

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Re: Nvidia launches first SaaS Offering

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I don't think things are so black and white. The mods can pretty much do whatever they want at the end of the day. They also give a lot of leeway.

I guess my engineering mind is wanting things to be more black and white.

I hear you. I'm the same way.

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I'm _extremely_ excited about the NEMO LLM service. Looking forward to how this will turn out in reality. I hope the pricing will be attractive enough though.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/gpu-cloud/nemo-llm-service/

> Easily customize and use massively large language models (LLMs) for high-performance AI.

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Shadow is much better (not as cheap as GeforceNow), you basically get a PC with a dedicated GPU, you can do what ever you want with it https://shadow.tech/

Also if you're interested in a bigger offering, I just ordered their upcoming Business Premium offering (not public yet, you need to contact them). It comes with an RTX6000 w/ 32GB vRAM, 6 cores of an Intel Platinum and 24GB RAM for 206€ per month. Here's their lineup: https://i.imgur.com/lWM3Vco.png . (129€ is the price until December 2022). Just find the business contact address on their site and shoot them a mail.…

Oh wow, are they officially entering the public cloud space?

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Eventually, every company will tend towards services. Monthly income flows are more enticing than one-time ones.

And when that happens (and if buyers ever get fed up), the pendulum will swing back as it will be a competitive advantage to offer one-time pricing and someone will exploit that edge. But that supposes buyers will care enough.

> And when that happens (and if buyers ever get fed up), the pendulum will swing back as it will be a competitive advantage to offer one-time pricing and someone will exploit that edge.

Why would they? If it's more profitable for a company to charge their users forever, have tighter control over their product and how it's used, and have the option to collect massive amounts of personal data nobody is going to give all that up for a somewhat larger percentage of interested users.

There are all kinds of products consumers want and would pay good money for that nobody has any interest in providing because they can get much richer by not giving consumers those things.

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Eventually, every company will tend towards services. Monthly income flows are more enticing than one-time ones.

Income flows and data flows. SaaS means you can constantly collect personal data to sell and exploit.

This is misleading about SaaS advantages. Most SaaS don't sell data, their main advantage is making money monthly by providing a service, not selling data.

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Income flows and data flows. SaaS means you can constantly collect personal data to sell and exploit.

This is misleading about SaaS advantages. Most SaaS don't sell data, their main advantage is making money monthly by providing a service, not selling data.

I've yet to see a SaaS product that doesn't "share" personal data with 3rd parties. They may not be mainly about collecting and selling/exploiting personal data, but every one I've seen does it.

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And when that happens (and if buyers ever get fed up), the pendulum will swing back as it will be a competitive advantage to offer one-time pricing and someone will exploit that edge. But that supposes buyers will care enough.

> And when that happens (and if buyers ever get fed up), the pendulum will swing back as it will be a competitive advantage to offer one-time pricing and someone will exploit that edge. Why would they? If it's more profitable for a company to charge their users forever, have tighter control over their product and how it's used, and have the option to collect massive amounts of personal data nobody is going to give al…

If I get a one time opportunity to grab 100 million dollar in sales, I will take. I don't need recurring 100 million dollar revenue.

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> And when that happens (and if buyers ever get fed up), the pendulum will swing back as it will be a competitive advantage to offer one-time pricing and someone will exploit that edge. Why would they? If it's more profitable for a company to charge their users forever, have tighter control over their product and how it's used, and have the option to collect massive amounts of personal data nobody is going to give al…

If I get a one time opportunity to grab 100 million dollar in sales, I will take. I don't need recurring 100 million dollar revenue.

I'd be perfectly happy to take my millions and run (or so I say now at least) but very few would rather take 100 million in sales today but not another dime vs 100 million+ every year
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