The speaker says building a meaningful model requires substantial resources, but matching frontier-lab resource levels is necessary only once a lab reaches the intelligence frontier.

“So you do need a lot of resources to...”

“to build something meaningful,”

“you don't need the same amount of resources.”

“Once you get to the frontier and you're really, really at the frontier of intelligence,”

“then you need the same amount of resources as any other frontier lab because you can kind of think about research as exploration of new ideas versus execution of known ideas.”