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Comment by farfatched

2 months ago

If this logic applied, then there would be no purpose in them having the 5 hourly limit.

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cbg0  2 months ago

The purpose is to control the total amount of requests they need to handle in a given timeframe. If everyone could use up their whole weekly limit in 5 hours, many would do so, thus pushing the GPU/TPU clusters to or above their capacity limits.

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