A look at the deluge of AI computing power set to come online in the coming years; Epoch AI expects the number of AI chips in use to double every nine months
THE SO WHAT
If AI chips are doubling every nine months, your real constraints shift from compute scarcity to power, data, and talent to aim that capacity. Treat 2026–2028 roadmaps as a world where today’s ‘frontier-scale’ workloads look mid-sized and model access is not your moat.
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