How much does it cost to train a frontier AI model?
Technology hard Data from 2024
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The answer
$100,000,000
Roughly $100M.
Training a frontier AI model costs on the order of $100 million in compute alone, up from a few million a few years ago. The cost is doubling roughly every year, which is why the number of organisations able to do it keeps shrinking.
Where this number comes from
| Source | Stanford AI Index Report |
|---|---|
| Figure refers to | 2024 |
| Last checked | |
| Unit | dollars |
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