Guides to AI on a rented GPU
Practical, step-by-step guides with today’s prices: choosing a GPU, getting GPU time on a student’s budget, moving off Google Colab, and building Nepali speech and language models.
Build Nepali speech-to-text with WhisperTrain Nepali speech recognition: which public datasets allow commercial use, how to fine-tune Whisper with LoRA, and what a run costs on a rented GPU.Make a Nepali text-to-speech voiceOpen models and Nepali voice datasets for text-to-speech, which licences allow commercial use, and how to fine-tune a Nepali voice on a rented GPU.Teach an open language model better NepaliHow to make Qwen, Gemma or Llama better at Nepali: choosing a base model, finding Nepali data, QLoRA settings, GPU sizes and what a run costs.Which GPU do I need for AI?How much GPU memory LLMs, fine-tuning, Stable Diffusion, FLUX and Whisper need, which cards fit, and what each memory size costs by the hour today.A Colab alternative with the GPU you chooseWhen free Colab is enough, when it is not, and how renting a GPU by the second compares with Colab Pro: no subscription, and the GPU you pick.The cheapest cloud GPUs right nowThe cheapest GPUs to rent right now with 8, 12, 16, 24, 48 and 80 GB of memory, per hour in US dollars, Indian rupees and Nepali rupees.GPUs for students: the free options and the cheap onesWhere students can get GPU time for AI projects: free notebooks and their limits, and when renting a GPU by the second makes sense.