I read enough horror stories about GCP in the last few years to prefer AWS over GCP with some exceptions (mostly GKE). What I'm saying is I hope they don't expect the same level of service from GCP that they expect from something like AWS, regardless of what they are using it for.
Why would startups requiring a ton of GPU compute use AWS or GCP, unless they received extraordinary discounts? I have never used them, but I once did a price comparison with AWS and Lambda Labs, and it didn’t look good for AWS. There must be many smaller providers that offer better rates, or self-host.
I don't work with GPU based stuff, but I work with some convoluted lambda based systems that are kinda expensive. You could literally replace all of them with a $5/month VPS (several orders of magnitude cheaper), or an equivalent Lightsail instance. You would go with Lightsail if you care about some SLA.
Are you thinking they’ll let it free and train a chatGPT on GCP activity/log data or something? What would be the point of that?