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The speaker believes a concealed cluster of a few hundred thousand GPUs would not be enough to compete at the frontier, particularly if, on 2030 AGI timelines, leading AI companies use millions or tens of millions of H100s in their largest training runs.

Thomas Larsen · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026

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“I think that this would not be enough to sort of compete at the frontier,”
“especially assuming”
“thing uh like the the 2030 agi timelines where you have like sort of the biggest ai companies in the world having like millions or tens of millions of h100s uh in their biggest training runs um and then for the for the sort of legal clusters we sort of basically the hope is we have a bunch of verification infrastructure running on those um data centers basically and the the main point of that verification infrastructure is to ensure”
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