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AI labs need to spend the majority of their compute on training and experiments for the next model.
Dwarkesh Patel · Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x · 3 Aug 2026
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“a lot of their compute,”
“the majority of their compute into doing the training and experiments that are necessary to build the next model.”Play from 2:12Report a misattribution
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