OpenAI’s chief scientist says no lab should keep scaling at maximum speed
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When a leading lab says it gets 3.1 days of machine work for every human day and in the same breath argues everyone should slow down, it's putting a moral and regulatory frame around compute scaling. Expect more explicit scrutiny of your training runs, eval practices, and external disclosures if you're anywhere near frontier-scale work.
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Applied AIAnalysis: since October, Anthropic has entered into agreements for at least 14.8 GW of compute capacity and may spend as much as $517B over the next decade
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