How much does it cost to train a frontier AI model?

Technology hard Data from 2024

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Answer in dollars. Shorthand like 9m or 1.2bn works.

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
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