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The speaker describes frontier-lab compute as growing about threefold annually, compared with a possible annual doubling of total world compute measured in gigawatts.

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“How long do you think, so there's this trend where maybe world compute in gigawatts doubles every year,”
“but the compute of the Frontier Labs triples every single year.”
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