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 model launched in 2015 and YOLOv8s is the latest version, developed by Ultralytics. The algorithm is not just about recognizing objects; it’s about doing so […]
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 assistants, like Siri or the Google Assistant. While these are certainly improvements over what we had in the 1970s, they still wouldn’t be mistaken […]
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 Diffusion XL, we’re fielding a lot of questions regarding the potential of consumer GPUs for serving SDXL inference at scale. The answer from our Stable […]
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 and time. Here’s a deep dive into our benchmark against the substantial English CommonVoice dataset and how we achieved a 99.1% cost reduction. A Costly […]
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 and coherent images that accurately depict the given input text. Its stable and reliable performance makes it a valuable asset for applications such as visual […]