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Prices for NVIDIA RTX 3090 GPUs have increased on eBay to around $1500, up from $1200 a few weeks ago, reflecting volatile market trends.
AI models are experiencing significant price reductions due to competition, while GPU rental costs are increasing, highlighting the growing value of compute resources.
The article advocates for AI companies to decentralize compute resources, open-source model weights, and prioritize consumer access over corporate control to foster innovation and safety in AI development.
The author discusses the high cost of the upcoming NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPU, considering an Apple Mac Studio with M5 Ultra as an alternative and expressing concern over the situation.
Silicon Data has raised $30 million in Series A funding to develop a reference price for GPU rental and launch compute futures trading on CME, aiming to help Wall Street hedge AI compute costs.
A user shares the current high prices of RTX PRO 6000 GPUs in Chile, noting a significant price increase from three months ago, and asks others about prices in their regions.
Kalshi has created a tool that plots the future price of computing power using prediction markets, aiming to build a forward curve for GPU rental costs.
Analysis of spot/interruptible GPU pricing for H100 and A100 across RunPod, Vast.ai, and AWS as of June 2026, noting significant discounts but also variability and availability issues.
The author observes that used RTX 3090 GPUs are being sold on eBay for $1,300-$1,500, higher than a new 3090 Ti purchased 5 years ago, and questions why people buy older used GPUs at such high prices for AI rigs.
Tracking 15 EU GPU stores shows RTX 5090 prices rising 3% due to AI/workstation demand while other GPUs drop 7-9%, suggesting sustained high pricing for AI inference hardware.
SkyPilot team open-sources a continuously updated catalog that tracks on-demand and spot pricing for 50 GPU models across 20+ clouds, now browsable online.