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Posted by jrandolf 20 hours ago

Show HN: sllm – Split a GPU node with other developers, unlimited tokens(sllm.cloud)
Running DeepSeek V3 (685B) requires 8×H100 GPUs which is about $14k/month. Most developers only need 15-25 tok/s. sllm lets you join a cohort of developers sharing a dedicated node. You reserve a spot with your card, and nobody is charged until the cohort fills. Prices start at $5/mo for smaller models.

The LLMs are completely private (we don't log any traffic).

The API is OpenAI-compatible (we run vLLM), so you just swap the base URL. Currently offering a few models.

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bluerooibos 12 hours ago|
So shared hosting for LLMs?
moralestapia 15 hours ago||
This is great, thanks!

I personally would like something like this but with "regular" GPU access. Some people still use them for something other than LLMs ^^.

jrandolf 15 hours ago|
There is vast.ai!
moralestapia 14 hours ago||
Wow!

I recall hearing about them years ago.

Good to see they're thriving!

RIMR 16 hours ago||
I read the FAQ, and I can't imagine this is going to work the way you want it to. It fundamentally doesn't make sense as a business model.

I can sign up for a cohort today, but there's not even a hint of how long it will take the cohort to fill up. The most subscribed cohort is only at 42% (and dropping), so maybe days to weeks? That's a long time to wait if you have a use case to satisfy.

And then the cohort expires, and I have to sign up for another one and play the waiting game again? Nobody wants that level of unreliability.

Also, don't say "15-25 tok/s". That is a min-max figure, but your FAQ says that this is actually a maximum. It makes no sense to measure a maximum as a range, and you state no minimum so I can only assume that it is 0 tok/s. If all users in the cohort use it simultaneously, the best they're getting is something like 1.5 tok/s (probably less), which is abyssmal.

You mention "optimization", but I have no idea what that means. It certainly doesn't mean imposing token limits, because your FAQ says that won't happen. If more than 25 users are using the cohort simultaneously, it is a physical impossibility to improve performance to the levels you advertise without sacrificing something else, like switching to a smaller model, which would essentially be fraud, or adding more GPUs which will bankrupt you at these margins. With 465 users per cohort, a large chunk of whom will be using tools like OpenClaw, nobody will ever see the performance you are offering.

The issue here is you are trying to offer affordable AI GPU nodes without operating at a loss. The entire AI industry is operating at a loss right now because of how expensive this all is. This strategy literally won't work right now unless you start courting VCs to invest tens to hundreds of millions of dollars so you can get this off the ground by operating at a loss until hopefully you turn a profit at some point in the future, but at that point developers will probably be able to run these models at home without your help.

jrandolf 14 hours ago|
Going on ChatGPT.com and using their AI for 24 hours doesn't mean you are actually using their LLM for 24 hours. It's only live for as long as the output is being generated. You reading, waiting for tool calls, etc. don't count toward concurrency. Factor in time-zones, lunch times, etc...it's more likely that we'd have an underutilization problem.

For filling up the cohorts, I agree and we're launching for a week to gather feedback.

peter_d_sherman 18 hours ago||
What a brilliant idea!

Split a "it needs to run in a datacenter because its hardware requirements are so large" AI/LLM across multiple people who each want shared access to that particular model.

Sort of like the Real Estate equivalent of subletting, or splitting a larger space into smaller spaces and subletting each one...

Or, like the Web Host equivalent of splitting a single server into multiple virtual machines for shared hosting by multiple other parties, or what-have-you...

I could definitely see marketplaces similar to this, popping up in the future!

It seems like it should make AI cheaper for everyone... that is, "democratize AI"... in a "more/better/faster/cheaper" way than AI has been democratized to date...

Anyway, it's a brilliant idea!

Wishing you a lot of luck with this endeavor!

esafak 18 hours ago||
Like vast.ai and TensorDock, and presumably others.
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copperx 14 hours ago|
There's a big difference between non-compliant, illegal, and criminal.