Free GPUs? Startup Hopes Free Is Right Price for GPU Cloud Service

GPUs are famously expensive – high end Nvidia Teslas can be priced well above $10,000. Now a New York startup, Paperspace, has announced a free cloud GPU service for machine/deep learning development on the company's cloud computing and deep learning platform. Designed for students and professional learning how to build, train and deploy machine learning models, the service can be thought of as an ML/DL starter kit that helps developers expand their skills and try out new ideas without financial risk. Utilizing Nvidia Quadro M4000 and P5000 GPU's and called "Gradient Community Notebooks," the service is based on Jupyter notebooks and enables developers working with widely used deep learning frameworks, such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras and OpenCV, to launch and collaborate on their ML projects. Similar to GitHub, Gradient Community Notebooks can be shared and "forked" into a user's own account while providing pre-loaded templates with various libraries, dependencies and drivers, the company said.