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Prompt & Context Engineering
Learn how prompts and context shape model quality, token usage, latency, retries, and inference cost.
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Learn how AI works—and what it costs.
Practical courses, calculators, provider data, and market evidence for understanding AI workloads, models, GPUs, infrastructure, and economics.
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A clearer way into AI compute
New to AI computeStart with the foundationsLearn GPUs, GPU-hours, model costs, infrastructure, and basic AI economics.Begin here Building better workloadsDesign smarter AI systemsUnderstand prompts, context, model selection, evaluation, reliability, and cost.Begin here Estimating or comparing costPut the economics to workUse calculators, provider data, and market evidence to estimate real AI spending.Begin here
Compute College curriculum
Build a working mental model, one lesson at a time.
127 plain-English lessons across 9 tracks — from GPUs and model costs to prompt design, context, power, data centers, and market structure.
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On-demand GPU prices from tracked providers
Current reviewed list price per GPU-hour and the H100-equivalent rate for each provider, each from a public price page with an editorial check and how long that price has held. Rows outside the review window are kept in the source data but not shown.
- AWS$6.88/GPU-hrHeld 75 days
- Azure$12.29/GPU-hrHeld 112 days
- CoreWeave$8.60/GPU-hrHeld 87 days
- CoreWeave$6.16/GPU-hrHeld 49 days
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