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THIS GUY BOUGHT A $2,400 NVIDIA BOX AND SAVED $18,700/YEAR ON CLOUD GPUS WITHOUT RENTING SERVERS AGAIN the entire setup runs on one rule - stop paying every time you want to test something most people run 20 small AI experiments in the cloud and think it’s cheap because...

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