Yen: Frontier AI training costs will plummet to $1M in years
Andy Yen · Is AI A Privacy Disaster? And How To Fight Back. — With Andy Yen · Mar 25, 2026 · at 28:44
Andy Yen, CEO of Proton, explains how Moore's Law and computing efficiencies will drastically lower the cost of training frontier AI models.
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“What I mean by this is today, if you want to train a top of the line, you know, our frontier model, that might cost you a couple billion dollars. But in a couple of years, that might be fifty million to, you know, a hundred million. And then a few more years on the line, it could be one or two million. And so what this really means is AI And language models in large effect they're gonna be commoditized.”
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