People will but probably less, not many people are doing AI at the edge that can pay the mega millions
> And likewise similar fundamental differences between consumer and cloud hopper (where the majority of the perf is the cloud one's ISA?)
I think Hopper was the version where they did a clean split and it’s only for datacenter
> So I guess I'm wondering if I should buy a GPU myself or should I just rent on the cloud if I wanted to start getting some experience in this field. How do you even get experience in this normally anyways, do you get into really good schools and into their AI labs which have a lot of funding?
You can do performance work on any system you have really it’s just that the details change depending on what you’re targeting. You can definitely learn the basics on like a 3060 by following blog posts