Older Consumer GPUs: A Perfect-Fit for AI Image Tagging In the current AI boom, there's a palpable excitement around sophisticated...
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Benchmarks, tutorials, case studies & other helpful resources for generative AI companies looking to serve inference at scale while saving on cloud costs.
Stable Diffusion v1.5 Benchmark On Consumer GPUs
Benchmarking Stable Diffusion v1.5 across 23 consumer GPUs What’s the best way to run inference at scale for stable diffusion? It depends on many factors. In this Stable Diffusion (SD)...
Stable Diffusion Inference Benchmark
Stable Diffusion Inference Benchmark on consumer-grade GPUs Are high-end consumer-grade GPUs good for Stable Diffusion inference at scale? If so, what would be the daily cost for generating millions of images? Do...
YOLOv8 Object Detection on Salad’s GPUs (73% Cheaper Than Azure)
What is YOLOv8? In the fast-evolving world of AI, object detection has made remarkable strides, epitomized by YOLOv8. YOLO (You Only Look Once) is an object detection and image segmentation...
Comparing Price-Performance of 22 GPUs for AI Image Tagging (GTX vs RTX)
Older Consumer GPUs: A Perfect-Fit for AI Image Tagging In the current AI boom, there's a palpable excitement around sophisticated image generation models like Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) and the...
Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) Benchmark – 769 Images Per Dollar on Salad
Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) Benchmark A couple months back, we showed you how to get almost 5000 images per dollar with Stable Diffusion 1.5. Now, with the release of Stable...
Bark Benchmark: Reading 144K Recipes with Text-to-Speech on SaladCloud
Speech Synthesis with suno-ai/bark When you think of speech synthesis, you might think of a very robotic sounding voice, like this one from 1979. Maybe you think of more modern...
Exploring AI Bias by Turning Faces into Salads – An Experiment
What is AI Bias in Image Generation? Type in ‘An engineer smiling at the camera’ as the prompt into a few AI image generators. What do you see? A collection...
Whisper Large Inference Benchmark: 137 Days of Audio Transcribed in 15 Hours for Just $117
Save Over 99% On Audio Transcription Using Whisper-Large-v2 and Consumer GPUs Harnessing the power of OpenAI's Whisper Large V2, an automatic speech recognition model, we've dramatically reduced audio transcription costs...
Stable Diffusion v1.4 Inference Benchmark – GPUs & Clouds Compared
Stable Diffusion v1.4 GPU Benchmark - Inference Stable Diffusion v1.4 is an impressive text-to-image diffusion model developed by stability.ai. By utilizing the principles of diffusion processes, Stable Diffusion v1.4 produces visually appealing...
Optimizing AI Image Generation: Streamlining Stable Diffusion with ControlNet in Containerized Environments
Implementing Stable Diffusion with ControlNet in any containerized environment comes with a plethora of challenges, mainly due to the sizable amount of additional model weights required to be incorporated in...
Announcing Salad’s SOC 2 Type 1 Certification
We are pleased to announce that Salad Technologies is now SOC 2 Type I Compliant, reinforcing our commitment to democratize the cloud while ensuring the highest standards of security &...
Salad Launches Kubernetes Support at KubeCon 2023
Salad is excited to announce support for Kubernetes (K8s) through the Virtual Kubelet project. The K8s integration based on the SaladCloud Virtual Kubelet Provider will be showcased at the upcoming...
The AI GPU Shortage: How Gaming PCs Offer a Solution and a Challenge
Reliability in Times of AI GPU Shortage In the world of cloud computing, leading providers have traditionally utilized expansive, state-of-the-art data centers to ensure top-tier reliability. These data centers, boasting...
A New Price-Performance Standard for BERT Transformers.
Engineers from Numenta used Salad Container Engine (SCE) to benchmark a first-of-its-kind intelligent computing platform that optimizes BERT transformer networks. Learn how Numenta attained 10x more inferences per dollar on SCE. Challenge Optimizing AI...
Salad Raises $17M to Decentralize the Cloud
Left Lane Capital and Origin Ventures co-lead our Series A, alongside existing investors Royal Street Ventures, Carthona Capital, and Kickstart Fund As Salad enters its fourth year, we're proud to have hundreds of thousands of PC...
Decentralize, or Be Destroyed!
The opinions and commentary expressed herein are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of everyone at Salad. We accept a diversity of viewpoints, flavors, and...
SaladCast Episode 13: Kyle Dodson on Containerized Workloads
*Welcome to SaladCast! In this podcast series, we introduce you to Salad Chefs from all corners of the Infinite Kitchen. We hope you'll join us as we get to know members...
Centralization Is a Systems Design Problem
The opinions and commentary expressed herein are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of everyone at Salad. We accept a diversity of viewpoints, flavors, and...
How Dreamup reduces cloud cost with SaladCloud
Using AI to reduce cloud costs and fund artists If you've spent any time on the internet in the last few months, two things will be everywhere. ChatGPT and how...
SaladCast Episode 12: Our Product Roadmap With Daniel Sarfati
Welcome to SaladCast! In this podcast series, we introduce you to Salad Chefs from all corners of the Infinite Kitchen. We hope you'll join us as we get to know members...
SaladCast Episode 11: Jared Carpenter on Salad’s Go-to-Market Strategy
Welcome to SaladCast! In this podcast series, we introduce you to Salad Chefs from all corners of the Infinite Kitchen. We hope you'll join us as we get to know members...
SaladCast Episode 10: The Salad Business Model With CEO Bob Miles
Welcome to SaladCast! In this podcast series, we introduce you to Salad Chefs from all corners of the Infinite Kitchen. We hope you'll join us as we get to know members...
How to Refactor Public Cloud to Reduce Cloud Cost
Cloud cost is ballooning for everyone. The global cloud market is expected to generate at least $206B in revenue this year, even as customers overwhelmingly fear overprovisioning and estimate that up to 32%...
GPU shortage isn’t the problem for Generative AI. GPU selection is.
Are we truly out of GPU compute power or are we just looking in the wrong places for the wrong type of GPUs? Recently, GPU shortage has been in the news everywhere. Just take a...
Exploring Distributed Data Parallel (DDP) Training on Consumer GPUs
Our team is currently developing utility applications for Salad Container Engine (SCE), a fully managed container orchestration platform designed to leverage the heterogeneous hardware that makes up our uniquely decentralized network. It's distributed...
Government Science on Citizen Machines – Why Distributed Cloud is the Way
Every year, private industry overlooks hundreds of potentially groundbreaking scientific computing projects, either due to the upfront cost or uncertain prospects for profitability. One of the most affected areas is...
Solving for Cost: Why Innovators Need a Decentralized Cloud
It's easy to see why over half of all cloud customers use containers. Containerization imparts improved portability to packaged software deployment, and adds a vital aspect of immutability that streamlines the progression...
How the Kitchen Conquered 2021
When you're in the Salad Kitchen, time tastes a little bit different. Treasured gaming hours—those moments spent mercking kids on hot mics, puzzling our way out of dungeons, or exploring...
2022 In Review
It's difficult to measure the importance of a year. Whether you gauge success in lucky headshots or quarterly goals, there are simply too many moments and milestones in anyone's life...
SCE Beta Registration Now Open
Salad Container Engine (SCE) is a fully managed orchestration platform designed to distribute stateless container workloads across a massively scalable global network of consumer PCs. Featuring predictable, minute-by-minute fees, our purpose-built...
Perfect Device Fingerprinting at Scale
The Idea The Web Scraping Clubs’ recent series on device fingerprinting has been making the rounds here at Salad, and this got the team and I very excited! Pierluigi Vinciguerra, co-founder of databoutique.com,...