Building a GenAI model is expensive. For example, running a cluster of 3,000 GPUs at $2 per GPU hour costs $144,000 per day. Since foundation model training typically spans weeks or even months on thousand-GPU clusters, investments in AI infrastructure quickly reach millions of dollars.

In this whitepaper, we examine the key factors that define the cost of AI model training and explain how the quality of infrastructure can streamline development and maximize return on investment.

Read on to learn:

• How extra investments in AI infrastructure can accelerate model development.

• How reliability measures on Nebius AI Cloud can save hundreds of thousands of dollars during training.

• How you can complete model training on Nebius at a lower overall cost, even when GPU-hour prices are higher than competitors.