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A high-end GPU workstation used for AI model training

everyone thinks fine-tuning an AI model costs a fortune. tuning Llama 8B on your own GPU costs about a coffee

The scary numbers you've seen are for training models from scratch. Fine-tuning an existing Llama 8B on your own data with QLoRA fits a 24GB card, uses ~14GB, and costs under a dollar per run if you rent. Here's the real math.

Lena Fischer · 2d ago · 9 min