Just to be clear, owning the hardware isn’t easy either!
Summary
A company shares the practical difficulties of purchasing and maintaining an HGX B300 for AI inference, including high cost (€1.1M), power and space requirements, and limited availability, with throughput estimates for GLM 5.2.
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