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Salad x Render Network: Milestones 1 and 2 Are Live

When the Render Network community approved RNP-023 earlier this year, Salad started on a three-milestone roadmap to bring our platform on chain as an exclusive Render subnet. Milestones 1 and...

Salad will become a Render Subnet, Salad and Render Partnership

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RNP-023 Approved: Salad Is Joining the Render Network

It's official. RNP-023 has passed the community vote, and Salad will now become an exclusive subnet on the Render Network. A few weeks ago we shared our proposal to fully...

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Use Cline with SaladCloud: Building Real Apps for Under $0.01

At SaladCloud, we've been working on easy-to-deploy recipes designed to cover most agentic use cases out of the box. When you run LLMs on Salad, you're not worried about token...

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Salad Proposes Integration with the Render Network

I’m excited to share that Salad has submitted a formal proposal alongside the Render Network Foundation to become a subnet on the Render Network. This would involve fully transitioning our...

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Qwen 3.5 Small Models on SaladCloud: Benchmarks, Cost, and Why You Don’t Need a Mac Mini

On March 2, 2026, Alibaba's Qwen team shipped Qwen 3.5 Small Model Series: the 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B. The benchmark numbers they shared are hard to ignore. The 9B...

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Building an Automated News Bot with OpenClaw and SaladCloud: A Real-World Cost Breakdown

We wanted to build something practical with OpenClaw not a demo, but an actual workflow we can use every day. The idea: an agent that continuously pulls news about topics...

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Reduce Your OpenClaw LLM Costs: SaladCloud Guide

OpenClaw (previously known as Moltbot and Clawdbot) is one of the hottest open-source projects of early 2026. It's a personal AI agent that lives on your computer and can actually...

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The Future of Scientific Compute is Decentralized

Scientific computing is undergoing a fundamental architectural transformation from centralized supercomputers and cloud providers to distributed networks of consumer hardware and peer-to-peer marketplaces. This shift matters because it democratizes access...

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Giving AI Agents Browser Access at the Edge

AI agents like Claude Code and Codex are becoming capable of increasingly sophisticated tasks—making and executing plans over hundreds or thousands of turns. Like us, they often need access to...

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Zero-Knowledge Proof Mining at Scale with SWPS & SaladCloud

The Compute Challenge in Web3 Zero-knowledge proofs are becoming one of the most demanding workloads in Web3 infrastructure. As proof systems mature and adoption increases, networks are pushing more computation...

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Nockchain ZK Proving on SaladCloud

Mining Digital Gold: Inside Nockchain's Zero-Knowledge Revolution When Tools Reshape Reality “Rethink Technology at the Civilization Level” Friedrich Nietzsche noticed something peculiar when he switched from pen to typewriter in...

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Save up to 77% on Zero-Knowledge Proofs with SaladCloud

Use decentralized SaladCloud compute as the most cost-effective power for zero-knowledge proof calculations. Introduction Over the past decade, digital technology has accelerated at a breathtaking pace. What used to be...

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Hunyuan3D 2.1 Image-to-3D: Achieve $0.009/generation on SaladCloud and save 94% over FAL

Once upon a time, in 2019, it was considered very impressive to generate an approximate depth map from a single image, a technique known as monocular depth estimation. Today, AI...

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Benchmarking SaladCloud: GPU Performance and Reliability in Action

SaladCloud is powered by tens of thousands of globally distributed nodes—primarily high-performance desktop computers and servers running the SaladCloud agent. Each node is equipped with consumer-grade or data center GPUs,...

Salad Slashes GPU Pricing Again – Now the Undisputed Cheapest Cloud in the Market

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Salad Slashes GPU Pricing Again – Now the Serving the Lowest Cost GPUs on the Market

Salad Makes GPU Computing Even More Affordable We're thrilled to announce another massive round of price cuts across our entire GPU fleet, cementing SaladCloud's position as the most affordable cloud...

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SaladCloud Logging Updates – Better Reliability, Structured Logs, and more

SaladCloud Container Logs just got much better. The team has been hard at work making numerous improvements up and down the stack to deliver a host of new logging features...

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FABLE: Fiction Adapted BERT for Literary Entities

Announcing FABLE: Fiction Adapted BERT for Literary Entities Today Salad releases our first open model, FABLE, a named-entity recognition model based on DeBERTa v3 specializing in narrative fiction. We also...

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Generate a Minute of High-Quality AI Video with WAN2.2 on SaladCloud for as Little as $0.87

Over the past two years, the field of AI video generation has exploded. Proprietary systems like OpenAI’s Sora, Runway Gen-2, and Pika have shown the world what’s possible: turning a few words or an image prompt...

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Blender Rendering Benchmark across 27 Consumer and Data Center GPUs on SaladCloud, with 90%+ Cost Savings

Blender is one of the most widely adopted open-source 3D creation suites, equipped with industry-grade tools for modeling, animation, and rendering. Its Cycles and Eevee engines deliver highly realistic visuals...

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Benchmarking WAN2.1: Open-Source Text-to-Video Generation on SaladCloud

Just a few years ago generating a video from a line of text felt almost impossible. Today, anyone can turn a text prompt into a realistic video — not just...

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Building High-Availability Services on Salad

Executive Summary Building reliable applications on distributed, interruptible infrastructure is a solved engineering problem. Companies like Civitai (10M images/day), Undetectable AI (tens of millions of users), Blend (6,000 images/hour), Klyne...

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New SaladCloud Recipes: Ready-to-Deploy Solutions for Your Distributed Computing Needs

We’re excited to announce a number of significant updates to recipes on SaladCloud. These pre-configured, ready-to-deploy applications are the fastest and easiest way to get up and running on SaladCloud,...

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Redefining AI Infrastructure: How TheStage AI and Salad Achieved 10K+ Images Per Dollar Through Distributed Optimization

The AI Infrastructure Paradox The artificial intelligence revolution has reached a critical inflection point. While AI capabilities advance at breakneck speed, a fundamental bottleneck constrains innovation: infrastructure access. Today's AI...

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Welcome to the Salad Kitchen!

Developers are at the heart of everything we do at Salad. We're an engineering-focused company with a developer-centric product lineup. That's why I'm thrilled to announce our new Developer Hub....

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How Sogni Leveraged Salad’s Distributed GPU Network to Scale from 3.5K to 340K+ Users in 90 Days

The DePIN Revolution in AI Art Generation In January 2025, Sogni launched their testnet with 3,500 users and an ambitious goal: reach 10,000 users by March 31st for their first...

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Introducing Salad’s Transcription API: superior accuracy now available at 40% of the cost of other providers

Revolutionizing AI Batch Transcription for Enterprises In a world where AI transcription is rapidly becoming a cornerstone for industries like media, customer service, legal, healthcare, and education, accuracy and affordability...

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Salad Transcription API Accuracy Benchmark: How it outperforms Deepgram, Assembly AI & AWS

Benchmarking Salad Transcription APIs: Salad Transcription and Transcription Lite We recently completed extensive accuracy benchmarks comparing our two transcription APIs - Salad Transcription API and Transcription Lite. Our goal was...

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Dirt Cheap Image Captioning With Qwen Vision-Language Models: Up to 98.4% Cheaper than OpenAI

Image captioning with Qwen Vision Language Model Image captioning and labeling plays an important role in many AI and ML training workloads, and until fairly recently, has been limited in...

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Project Odyssey: Generative AI Empowers Independent Creators

I recently had the privilege to be a judge in Project Odyssey’s AI film competition, and I am blown away by how far generative AI has come in such a...

How TAAFT scales on SaladCloud for 50% less cost

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There’s An AI For That scales user-generated AI tools with SaladCloud at 50% less cost

Fast Facts about TAAFT & SaladCloud: Over 50% projected compute cost reduction using SaladCloud Diverse GPU usage: Different GPUs for high-end tasks & efficient batch processing Thousands of AI tools...

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SaladCloud becomes the first to offer NVIDIA RTX 5090/5080s, thanks to the power of community

SaladCloud offers RTX 5090/5080 just 24 hours after launch On January 30th, 2025, Jensen Huang (and his customary leather jacket) launched the NVIDIA RTX 5000 series GPUs at CES. For...

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DeepSeek TGI Benchmark: Build highly scalable and cost-effective LLM applications on SaladCloud, at 70% less cost than hyperscalers

DeepSeek LLM benchmark on SaladCloud LLM applications need a highly scalable and cost-effective GPU infrastructure to meet rapidly evolving demands. While the data center GPUs, such as A100 and H100,...

Klyne accelerates AI drug discovery with SaladCloud's low-cost, high-scale compute

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1000s of GPUs, over 50% savings: Klyne accelerates AI drug discovery on SaladCloud

Accelerating early-stage drug discovery at low-cost with AI The journey of drug discovery is a winding, often frustrating road defined by risk, long timelines, and staggering costs. A typical pharmaceutical...

Undetectable.ai saves over $50,000 a month with LLM GPUs on SaladCloud

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How Undetectable.ai saves over $50,000 a month with SaladCloud’s consumer GPUs

A surge of users for Undetectable.ai Undetectable.ai is on a mission to solve one of the most pressing challenges in the era of large language models (LLMs): accurately detecting AI-generated...

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Llama 3.1 8B GPU benchmark – $0.228 per Million output tokens on SaladCloud

Llama 3.1 8B GPU benchmark Llama 3.1 is a family of Large Language Models (LLMs) released by Meta, available with a friendly community license and a variety of sizes (8B,...

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Flux.1-Dev benchmark: 992 images per dollar on SaladCloud

Flux.1-Dev: An Introduction Flux.1 is a new series of text-to-image models from Black Forest Labs that has set the new standard in quality and prompt adherence, and it can even...

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Stable diffusion 1.5 benchmark: 14,000+ images per dollar on SaladCloud

Stable diffusion 1.5 benchmark on consumer GPUs Since our last stable diffusion benchmark nearly a year ago, a lot has changed. While we previously used SD.Next for inference, ComfyUI has...

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Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) benchmark: 3405 images per dollar on SaladCloud

Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) benchmark on 3 RTX GPUs Since our last SDXL benchmark nearly a year ago, a lot has changed. Community adoption of SDXL has increased significantly, and...

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Flux.1 Schnell benchmark: 5243 images per dollar on SaladCloud

Introduction to Flux.1 - The new standard for image generation Flux.1 is a new series of models from Black Forest Labs that has set the new standard in quality and...

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Molecular Simulation: GROMACS Benchmark on 30 GPUs on SaladCloud, 90+% Cost Savings

Note: Prices have fallen considerably since this benchmark was conducted, so actual costs will be even lower! Benchmarking GROMACS for Molecular Simulation on Consumer GPUs In this deep dive, we...

Salad drops cloud GPU pricing to become the lowest-priced cloud (again)

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Salad drops GPU pricing to become the lowest priced cloud (again)

Salad chops Cloud GPU pricing We are excited to announce that we have reduced the prices on our entire fleet of GPUs, making SaladCloud the lowest priced cloud in the...

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Molecular Simulation: OpenMM Benchmark on 25 Consumer GPUs, 95% Less Cost

Note: Prices have fallen considerably since this benchmark was conducted, so actual costs will be even lower! Benchmarking OpenMM for Molecular Simulation on consumer GPUs OpenMM is one of the most...

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How to Run Cog Applications on SaladCloud

Introduction to Cog: Containers for Machine Learning Cog is an open-source tool designed to streamline the creation of inference applications for various AI models. It offers CLI tools, Python modules...

Blend cuts AI inference cost by 85% on SaladCloud running 3X more scale

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Blend cuts AI inference cost by 85% on SaladCloud while running 3X more scale

Key takeaways: - The team at Blend was facing high inference costs & scalability challenges on major cloud providers & local vendors- Switching to SaladCloud for image generation helped them...

Civitai powers 10 Million AI images per day on Salad

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Civitai powers 10 Million AI images per day with Salad’s distributed cloud

Civitai: The Home of Open-Source Generative AI “Our mission is rooted in the belief that AI resources should be accessible to all, not monopolized by a few” - Justin Maier,...

AI batch transcription of 1 million hours of video

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AI Batch Transcription Benchmark: Transcribing 1 Million+ Hours of Videos in just 7 days for $1800

AI batch transcription benchmark: Speech-to-text at scale Building upon the inference benchmark of Parakeet TDT 1.1B for YouTube videos on SaladCloud and with our ongoing efforts to enhance the system...

Introducing SSAP: Migrate to Salad GPU Cloud easily

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Introducing SSAP: Migrate to SaladCloud easily & save up to 80%

AI companies are overpaying for compute today Affordable, accessible compute is the defining challenge for many AI startups today. Recently, we’ve seen many news stories of innovative AI companies struggling...

AI transcription - Parakeet TRT 1.1B batch transription compared against APIs

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AI Transcription Benchmark: 1 Million Hours of Youtube Videos with Parakeet TDT 1.1B for Just $1260, a 1000-fold cost reduction

Building upon the inference benchmark of Parakeet TDT 1.1B on SaladCloud and with our ongoing efforts to enhance the system architecture and implementation for batch jobs, we have achieved a 1000-fold...

Self-managed Openvoice vs Metavoice comparison: A Text to speech API alternative

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Text-to-Speech (TTS) API Alternative: Self-Managed OpenVoice vs MetaVoice Comparison

A cost-effective alternative to Text-to-speech APIs In the realm of text-to-speech (TTS) technology, two open-source models have recently garnered everyone's attention: OpenVoice and MetaVoice. Each model has unique capabilities in...

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Fine-tuning Stable Diffusion with Dreambooth on SaladCloud (from just $0.1426 per training job)

Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) fine-tuning as a service I recently wrote a blog about fine-tuning Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) on interruptible GPUs at low cost, starring my dog Timber. The...

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MetaVoice AI Text-to-Speech (TTS) Benchmark: Narrate 100,000 words for only $4.29 on SaladCloud

Note: Do not miss out on listening to voice clones of 10 different celebrities reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone towards the end of the blog. Introduction to MetaVoice-1B...

Fine tuning stable diffusion XL (SDXL) for low cost with Interruptible GPUs and LORA

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Fine-Tuning Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) with interruptible GPUs and LoRA for low cost

It’s no secret that training image generation models like Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) doesn’t come cheaply. The original Stable Diffusion model cost $600,000 USD to train using hundreds of enterprise-grade...

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Parakeet TDT 1.1B Inference Benchmark on SaladCloud: 1,000,000 hours of transcription for Just $1260

Parakeet TDT 1.1B GPU benchmark The Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model, Parakeet TDT 1.1B, is the latest addition to NVIDIA's Parakeet family. Parakeet TDT 1.1B boasts unparalleled accuracy and significantly...

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Inference Benchmark on SaladCloud: Distil-Whisper Large V2 vs. Whisper Large V3 for Speech-to-text

Hugging Face Distil-Whisper Large V2 is a distilled version of the OpenAI Whisper model that is 6 times faster, 49% smaller, and performs within 1% WER (word error rates) on...

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OpenVoice Text-to-Speech (TTS) Benchmark: 6 Million+ Words/$ Using SaladCloud

What is OpenVoice? OpenVoice is an open-source, instant voice cloning technology that enables the creation of realistic and customizable speech from just a short audio clip of a reference speaker....

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Whisper Large V3 Speech Recognition Benchmark: 1 Million hours of audio transcription for just $5110

Save over 99.8% on audio transcription using Whisper Large V3 and consumer GPUs A 99.8% cost-savings for automatic speech recognition sounds unreal. However, with the right choice of GPUs and...

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Tag 309K Images/$ with Recognize Anything Model++ (RAM++) On Consumer GPUs

What is the Recognize Anything Model++? The Recognize Anything Model++ (RAM++) is a state of the art image tagging foundational model released last year, with pre-trained model weights available on...

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Tutorial: How to run your own GPU-accelerated JupyterLab on SaladCloud

In recent times, JupyterLab has gained popularity among data scientists and students because of its ease of use, flexibility, and extensibility. However, access to resources and cost remain a hindrance....

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Segment Anything Model (SAM) Benchmark: 50K Images/$ on Consumer GPUs

What is the Segment Anything Model (SAM)? The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a foundational image segmentation model released by Meta AI Research last year, with pre-trained model weights available...

Deploy your own ChatGPT with Ollama, Huggingface Chat UI and Salad

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Your own ChatGPT for just $0.04/hr – with Ollama, ChatUI and SaladCloud

Deploy your own LLM with Ollama & Huggingface Chat UI on SaladCloud How much does it cost to build and deploy a ChatGPT-like product today? The cost could be anywhere...

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LLM Comparison Through TGI Benchmark Using SaladCloud

In the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Text Generation Inference (TGI) has become a vital toolkit for deploying and serving Large Language Models (LLMs). TGI enables efficient and scalable text...

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Data Pipeline Processing with GPUs: Why, How, and Where

You can’t train foundational AI models without good data, and lots of it. Data pipeline processing is a crucial task for any team that is building or even fine-tuning its...

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Analyzing the Stunning Realism of GTA6 with YOLOv8 and SaladCloud

Running YOLOv8 on the GTA6 trailer with SaladCloud The gaming community was recently electrified with the release of a new trailer for "Grand Theft Auto VI" (GTA6), a title known...

YOLOv8 training & deployment tutorial on SaladCloud

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Training a custom YOLOv8 model on SaladCloud for just $0.25

Click here for a step-by-step guide on training YOLOv8 on SaladCloud Training a Custom YOLOv8 Model for Logo Detection In the dynamic world of AI and machine learning, the ability...

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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)...

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YOLOv8 Benchmark: Object Detection on SaladCloud’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...

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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 for its distributed cloud at Kubecon 2023

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SaladCloud 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...

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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...

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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 voice...

The GPU shortage: How Gaming PCs Offer a Solution and a Challenge for Generative AI

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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...

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Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) Benchmark – 769 Images Per Dollar on SaladCloud

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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How Dreamup reduces AI image generation 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...

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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 of generating millions of images? Do...

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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...

Decentralization is he future of cloud computing

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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