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Ryan Greenblatt guesses that frontier labs spend roughly 10–20 times as much on compute as on data, with the ratio varying by company, and says he does not know the exact split.

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“I agree that yeah, like my sense is the split is something like, I would have guessed like 20 to one or something 10 to one. I don't know exactly depends on the company.”

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