Ideas
AI productaicloud

SSD-optimized model hosting

Offer cloud hosting for models too large for RAM but small enough for SSDs. Fill the gap between local and big cloud.

Why now

New techniques make SSD-hosted models viable, but no platforms specialize in this middle ground.

Who for
Indie AI developers
Business model
Cloud hosting fees
Effort
A few weeks

Small teams need to run 20-100GB models affordably without building custom SSD caching.

Create a hosting platform that intelligently streams model layers from fast SSDs. Offer simple deployment of Janas and similar frameworks.

Charge by the hour based on SSD bandwidth used. Target indie AI developers and researchers.

MVP could be pre-configured cloud instances with benchmarked setups.

Risk is cloud providers adding this as a standard option.

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