Get AMD's $100 Developer Cloud credit and run a 70B model on one 192 GB MI300X GPU, without burning the credit

The companion to the reel. AMD's AI Developer Program gives qualified developers who apply a $100 AMD Developer Cloud credit for an Instinct MI300X: 192 GB of GPU memory, 20 vCPUs, 240 GB RAM. At the public $2.59/GPU-hour price that is about 38 hours (AMD says ~50). INSIDE: (1) WHAT AMD SAYS — quoted offer, specs, the 30-day expiry and the honest catch (AMD approves by use case). (2) STEPS 1–4 — join the program, apply with a clear plan, activate the credit and create 1x MI300X, serve a 70B with vLLM on ROCm. (3) WHAT FITS IN 192 GB — 8B to 405B at 16/8/4-bit, and good uses for ~38 hours. (4) DON'T BURN THE CREDIT — a powered-off GPU still bills, what happens when credit ends, and a session checklist. Quotes from amd.com and digitalocean.com, Oct 3 2026. Independent guide from Hyperautomation Labs — not affiliated with AMD, DigitalOcean, Meta, Hugging Face or vLLM.

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