David Owen: Experimental compute receives far more funding than final training runs
David Owen · The 2045 Superintelligence Timeline: Epoch AI’s Data-Driven Forecast · Nov 24, 2025 · at 8:58
David Owen, a researcher at Epoch AI, discusses how frontier AI laboratories allocate capital between experimental compute during R&D and final training runs.
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“As far as we can tell, experimental compute, which you seem to need to do research, is also, is receiving a similar amount of money, and that in fact it's receiving many times more money than the final training runs that are actually, of the models that are actually being released.”
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