Funding ask
$3,000 for GPU rental, covering approximately 400 hours on an H100 at $2.89 per hour ($1,156) and 420 hours on an H200 at $4.39 per hour ($1,843.80), giving about 820 GPU hours for fine-tuning and testing.
$1,500 for API usage, which would cover approximately 75k model requests based on an estimated average of 10k input tokens and 2k output tokens per request using over different models
$1,500 for expert dataset review, based on two reviewers working 50 hours each at an estimated $12 per hour, plus 25 hours of independent adjudication at the same rate.
$1,800 for cloud hosting, secure testing environments and storage over 12 months, based on an allowance of $150 per month
$600 for software and development subscriptions over 12 months,
$1,000 is allocated for independent technical testing, estimated at 40 hours at $25 per hour, while the remaining $600 will cover unexpected project costs.
The total budget is $10,000.