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Molecular Simulation: OpenMM Benchmark on 25 consumer GPUs, 95% less cost

Benchmarking OpenMM for Molecular Simulation on consumer GPUs OpenMM is one of the most popular toolkits for molecular dynamics simulations, renowned for its high-performance, flexibility and extensibility. It enables users...

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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 Salad while running 3X more scale

Key takeaways: - The team at Blend were 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...

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Introducing SSAP: Migrate to Salad GPU Cloud 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...

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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Cost-effective Stable Diffusion fine tuning on Salad

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...

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

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

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. But 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. But access to resources and cost remains 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 Salad

Deploy your own LLM with Ollama & Huggingface Chat UI on Salad 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...

YOLOv8 training & deployment tutorial on SaladCloud

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Training a custom YOLOv8 model on Salad for just $0.25

Click here for a step-by-step guide on training YOLOv8 on Salad 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 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...

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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 the...

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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...

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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...

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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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...

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Inference Benchmark on Salad: 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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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,...

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Analyzing the Stunning Realism of GTA6 with YOLOv8 and SaladCloud

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

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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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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 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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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 Salad

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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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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