According to the model card google/flan-t5-base · Hugging Face The model uses just 250M parameters that most likely means that I can simply run in on my personal laptop, core i5, 16 GB RAM. At least for the first lab. Do I really need the SageMaker for this course?
SageMaker provides access to a GPU farm.
I know what it does. The question was, do I need it for the course and T5 model?
How fast will your computer run on that size of data set without a GPU?