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>> But it probably won't be free since I'm looking at >$100k in compute costs to build it.

How about crowd funding it? Your previous work should be enough to convince people it's worth contributing to.

Yeah, I'm looking into government programs such as the EU "Prototype Fund", too. But the issue with crowdfunding is that if I want to raise $100k on Kickstarter, I need to spend $10k for an agency and another $20k for ads to promote the campaign. So it's quite wasteful (30% just for marketing) unless you already have a large audience willing to pay, which I don't have.

So I believe my best bet might be to partner up with a larger company who will pay for development and/or just charging users for a license. Nuance's Dragon Home is $200 and their Pro version is $500, so there's a lot of room for me to be cheaper while still reaching $100k in revenue with a realistic number of users.

You might be eligible to use Google's TPU Research Cloud for free, provided you publicize your results? https://sites.research.google/trc/about/

Otherwise, perhaps you could ask LAION on #compute-allocation?

Thanks for those excellent actionable suggestions :)

Comments like these are why "Show HN" can be so rewarding (despite all the pedantry about the submission title which I can't change anymore anyway).

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