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planning LLM workloads on Google Cloud / Vertex AI funded by Google for Startups (GFS) Cloud Program credits (or the $300 Free Trial credit). Tension: It is unclear which models the credits actually pay for. Outcome: Picking a partner model for a credit-funded pipeline silently bills real dollars, while the equivalent first-party or self-hosted path would have been free against the grant.
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planning LLM workloads on Google Cloud / Vertex AI funded by Google for Startups (GFS) Cloud Program credits (or the $300 Free Trial credit). Tension: It is unclear which models the credits actually pay for. Outcome: Picking a partner model for a credit-funded pipeline silently bills real dollars, while the equivalent first-party or self-hosted path would have been free against the grant.