| 16T | “a 15 trillion” | Hugging Face Filtered 15T Token Dataset Down to 1.5T Educational Tokens | Loubna Ben Allal | Dec 24, 2024 | — |
| 15T | “15 trillion” | Hugging Face Filtered 15T Token Dataset Down to 1.5T Educational Tokens | Loubna Ben Allal | Dec 24, 2024 | — |
| 15T | “15 trillion” | Ben Allal: LLaMA 3 used 15x more pre-training tokens than original LLaMA | Loubna Ben Allal | Dec 24, 2024 | Supported |
| 13T | “13 trillion” | Brockman: Arc Institute trained 40B DNA model on 13T base pairs | Greg Brockman | Aug 15, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 11T | “11 trillion” | Ben Allal: Small models continue improving when trained on 11T tokens | Loubna Ben Allal | Dec 24, 2024 | — |
| 10T | “10 trillion” | Beam: Lila's 10-trillion-token general science model beats specialized AI | Andy Beam | Jul 16, 2026 | — |
| 10T | “10 trillion” | Hill-Smith estimates Gemini 3 Pro parameter count hits 5 to 10 trillion | Micah Hill-Smith | Jan 9, 2026 | — |
| 10T | “10 trillion” | Swix: Frontier model sizes have likely peaked around 2 trillion parameters | Shawn Wang | Oct 20, 2025 | — |
| 10T | “10 trillion” | Swyx: AI models hit a 2T parameter wall, won't reach 10T | Shawn Wang | Jan 1, 2025 | — |
| 6.5T | “6.5 trillion” | Bakouch: SmolLM 2 scored random on MMLU until 6.5 trillion tokens | Elie Bakouch | Oct 20, 2025 | Supported |
| 6T | “six trillion” | Kant: Nvidia GB300 allows models to jump from 1T to 6T parameters | Eiso Kant | Jul 22, 2026 | — |
| 6T | “six trillion” | Bakouch: SmolLM 2 scored random on MMLU until 6.5 trillion tokens | Elie Bakouch | Oct 20, 2025 | Supported |
| 6T | “a five trillion” | Anandkumar: Standard Transformers cannot scale to 5-trillion context lengths for physics | Anima Anandkumar | Sep 4, 2026 | — |
| 5T | “five trillion” | Jenik: A single 5-trillion-token model run generated 22 terabytes of output | Benedikt Jenik | Sep 4, 2026 | — |
| 5T | “five trillion” | Jenik: Accelerated Understanding achieved 5-trillion token inference context length | Benedikt Jenik | Sep 4, 2026 | — |
| 4T | “four trillion” | Cerebras WSE-3 features 900,000 cores, 44GB SRAM, and 4 trillion transistors | Sarah Chieng | Dec 7, 2024 | Supported |
| 2.8T | “2.8 trillion” | Fitting a 2.8-trillion parameter model on one node requires eight GB300s | Philip Kiely | Aug 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 2T | “a one trillion” | Bissell: Goodfire performs activation steering on 1-trillion parameter Kimi K2 | Mark Bissell | Feb 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 2T | “two trillion” | Swyx: AI models hit a 2T parameter wall, won't reach 10T | Shawn Wang | Jan 1, 2025 | — |
| 1.9T | “1.9 trillion” | Ben Allal: NVIDIA generated 1.9 trillion synthetic tokens for Nemotron-CC | Loubna Ben Allal | Dec 24, 2024 | Supported |
| 1.5T | “1.5 trillion” | Hugging Face Filtered 15T Token Dataset Down to 1.5T Educational Tokens | Loubna Ben Allal | Dec 24, 2024 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Custom $50B ASICs become economically rational for $500B AI training runs | Shawn Wang | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Kant: Nvidia GB300 allows models to jump from 1T to 6T parameters | Eiso Kant | Jul 22, 2026 | — |
| 1T | “one trillion” | Malde: Western open-source AI lags Chinese models at trillion-parameter scale | Ronak Malde | Jun 21, 2026 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Anthropic will become a trillion-dollar company within four years of founding | Anjney Midha | Jun 18, 2026 | Open |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Swix: Frontier model context windows will not reach billion-token scales | Shawn Wang | Apr 18, 2026 | Open |
| 1T | “a trillion” | O'Laughlin: Google TPU business could be worth $1 trillion | Doug O'Laughlin | Feb 24, 2026 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Swyx: AI context windows will remain capped near 1M for 5-10 years | Shawn Wang | Feb 24, 2026 | Open |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Dean: Scaling quadratic attention cannot reach billion- or trillion-token context windows | Jeff Dean | Feb 12, 2026 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Nair: LLM agents will hit $1T before robotics hits $10B | Ashvin Nair | Dec 30, 2025 | Didn’t hold up |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Nair: Continual learning during deployment does not risk model capacity overload | Ashvin Nair | Dec 30, 2025 | — |
| 1T | “one trillion” | Morcos: Arcee 4.5B beat Gemma before reaching one trillion tokens | Ari Morcos | Aug 29, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Dual reward signals prevent AI agent behavioral collapse in Factorio | Jack Hopkins | Apr 27, 2025 | — |
| 1T | “one trillion” | Ben Allal: LLaMA 3 used 15x more pre-training tokens than original LLaMA | Loubna Ben Allal | Dec 24, 2024 | Supported |
| 1T | “one trillion” | Ben Allal: Small models continue improving when trained on 11T tokens | Loubna Ben Allal | Dec 24, 2024 | — |
| 1T | “one trillion” | He: Upcycling a 15B model on 1T tokens yielded 4% MMLU gain | Ethan He | Oct 29, 2024 | Supported |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Jenik: Accelerated Understanding has trained physics models up to 1-trillion parameters | Benedikt Jenik | Sep 4, 2026 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Jenik: Accelerated Understanding achieved 5-trillion token inference context length | Benedikt Jenik | Sep 4, 2026 | — |
| 600B | “six hundred billion” | Awais: CommandCode has 16,000 tool repair variations across 600B tokens | Ahmad Awais | Jun 6, 2026 | — |
| 600B | “a five hundred billion” | Howard: Meta 'blew it' on Code Llama due to catastrophic forgetting | Jeremy Howard | Oct 20, 2023 | — |
| 500B | “five hundred billion” | Custom $50B ASICs become economically rational for $500B AI training runs | Shawn Wang | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 400B | “four hundred billion” | Conover: Economic incentives to pre-train commodity foundation models from scratch are diminishing | Mike Conover | Jun 11, 2024 | — |
| 220B | “two hundred twenty billion” | Hotz: GPT-4 is an 8-way mixture model with 220B parameters per head | George Hotz | Jun 20, 2023 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 200B | “two hundred billion” | Patel: Google and Amazon stocks dropped 10% on combined $380B CapEx | Dylan Patel | Feb 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 175B | “a hundred seventy-five billion” | Streaming throughput constraints prevent Suno from scaling to 175 billion parameters | Mikey Shulman | Mar 14, 2024 | — |
| 170B | “one hundred seventy billion” | Mohan: Training optimizer state requires 14x model parameter size in memory | Varun Mohan | Jul 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Ethan He: Megatron MoE was first to train trillion-parameter MoEs at 40% MFU | Ethan He | Jun 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Eskildsen: Turbopuffer ANN v3 searches 100B vectors with 40ms p50 latency | Simon Eskildsen | Mar 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 80B | “eighty billion” | Patel: Google and Amazon stocks dropped 10% on combined $380B CapEx | Dylan Patel | Feb 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 70B | “seventy billion” | Lambert: Scaling from 7B to 70B parameters fixes nuance and repetition | Nathan Lambert | Jan 11, 2024 | — |
| 70B | “seventy billion” | Lambert: AI2 trained 70B TÜLU 2 on the first run without ablations | Nathan Lambert | Jan 11, 2024 | — |
| 70B | “seventy billion” | Patel: Running LLaMA-70B at reading speed requires 2.1 TB/s memory bandwidth | Dylan Patel | Dec 5, 2023 | Supported |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | Custom $50B ASICs become economically rational for $500B AI training runs | Shawn Wang | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | Swyx: At $5B+ training runs, designing custom chips makes economic sense | Michael Swix (Swyx) | Apr 11, 2025 | — |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | Ben Allal: LLMs can be trained with entirely synthetic pipelines | Loubna Ben Allal | Dec 24, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | Enterprises retrain 10B-30B open models from scratch for legal data compliance | Andrew Feldman | Oct 1, 2025 | — |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | Bachman: Manifest plans 30-billion-parameter foundation model using Power Retention | Diego Bachman | Sep 23, 2025 | — |
| 21B | “a twenty billion” | Conover: A $20B crossover hedge fund uses Brightwave for equity research | Mike Conover | Jun 11, 2024 | — |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Rajpal: Waymo had 20 million real-world miles versus 20 billion in simulation | Shreya Rajpal | Sep 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 12B | “twelve billion” | The Information: OpenAI hit $12B ARR as burn rose to $8B | Stephanie Palazzolo | Aug 6, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 11B | “a ten billion” | Nair: LLM agents will hit $1T before robotics hits $10B | Ashvin Nair | Dec 30, 2025 | Didn’t hold up |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Hong: Axiom Math will be worth $10 billion | Carina Hong | Jun 3, 2026 | Open |
| 9.1B | “an 8.1 billion” | Feldman: Cerebras raised $1.1B at an $8.1B valuation | Andrew Feldman | Oct 1, 2025 | Supported |
| 8B | “eight billion” | Kant: Laguna S has 118B total parameters and 8B active parameters | Eiso Kant | Jul 22, 2026 | — |
| 8B | “eight billion” | Andreessen: Utopians and doomers overestimate how quickly humans adapt to AI | Marc Andreessen | Apr 3, 2026 | — |
| 8B | “eight billion” | The Information: OpenAI hit $12B ARR as burn rose to $8B | Stephanie Palazzolo | Aug 6, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 8B | “eight billion” | Drew Houston brings an external GPU on planes to run Llama locally | Drew Houston | Oct 18, 2024 | — |
| 8B | “eight billion” | Houston: Production AI systems should use minimum viable fine-tuned models | Drew Houston | Oct 18, 2024 | — |
| 7B | “a six billion” | Rives: The ESMC family includes 300M, 600M, and 6B parameter models | Alex Rives | May 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 6.8B | “6.8 billion” | Biohub predicted 3D structures for 1.1 billion proteins from global sequence databases | Alex Rives | May 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 6.2B | “6.2 billion” | Welling: Billion-Dollar Funding Rounds Signal Exploding AI for Science Bubble | Max Welling | Feb 25, 2026 | — |
| 6B | “six billion” | Beauchamp: Chai unlocked growth by letting consumers build bots with GPT-J | William Beauchamp | Jan 26, 2025 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | Gemma 4 E2B loads only 2B of 5B parameters into GPU | Omar Sanseviero | May 24, 2026 | Supported |
| 5B | “five billion” | Swyx: At $5B+ training runs, designing custom chips makes economic sense | Michael Swix (Swyx) | Apr 11, 2025 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | Zhang: Llama 405B sees very few enterprise users compared to 70B | Yining Zhang | Jan 19, 2025 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | Yining Zhang: DeepSeek V3 scores 94.6 on GSM8K, outperforming Llama 405B | Yining Zhang | Jan 19, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 4.5B | “4.5 billion” | Hou: Windsurf generated 4.5 billion lines of code in three months | Kevin Hou | Jul 28, 2025 | — |
| 4B | “a three billion” | Bachman: Manifest AI built Manifesto to repair repositories using PowerCoder-3B | Diego Bachman | Sep 23, 2025 | — |
| 3B | “a one a billion” | McPartlon: Multi-specific antibody modalities must be designed computationally from first principles | Matt McPartlon | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 3B | “three billion” | Gemma 4 E2B loads only 2B of 5B parameters into GPU | Omar Sanseviero | May 24, 2026 | Supported |
| 2.1B | “a 1.1 billion” | Feldman: Cerebras raised $1.1B at an $8.1B valuation | Andrew Feldman | Oct 1, 2025 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Gemma 4 E2B loads only 2B of 5B parameters into GPU | Omar Sanseviero | May 24, 2026 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Dean: Early 2B-parameter Google Brain model cut ImageNet-22K error by 70% | Jeff Dean | Feb 12, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 2B | “a one billion” | Casado: A $1B model training run economically justifies a custom ASIC | Martin Casado | Feb 19, 2026 | — |
| 2B | “two billion” | OpenAI Spent $7 Billion on Compute, With $5 Billion for R&D | Shawn Wang | Nov 14, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 2B | “two billion” | Robicheaux: 2B PaliGemma 2 Beats ChatGPT on MMVP with 47.3% | Peter Robicheaux | Dec 22, 2024 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Korupati: Moondream built a 0.5B model by pruning its 2B model | Vik Korupati | Dec 22, 2024 | — |
| 1.7B | “1.7 billion” | Swyx: Generated Playable 3D Board Game in ChatGPT Using 1.7B Tokens | Shawn Wang | Jul 28, 2026 | — |
| 1.5B | “half a billion” | Agrawal: Lambda Labs generates well over $500M in ARR | Mitesh Agrawal | Aug 18, 2025 | Supported |
| 1.2B | “1.2 billion” | Awais: LangBase grew to 1.2 billion agent runs per month | Ahmad Awais | Jun 6, 2026 | — |
| 1.1B | “1.1 billion” | Biohub predicted 3D structures for 1.1 billion proteins from global sequence databases | Alex Rives | May 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | McPartlon: Multi-specific antibody modalities must be designed computationally from first principles | Matt McPartlon | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Ethan He: Video Models Must Bootstrap From Image Diffusion Models for Semantic Understanding | Ethan He | Jun 1, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Swix: Frontier model context windows will not reach billion-token scales | Shawn Wang | Apr 18, 2026 | Open |
| 1B | “a billion” | Swyx: GitHub Copilot Has at Least $1 Billion in ARR | Shawn Wang | Feb 24, 2026 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 1B | “a billion” | AlphaFold Models Have Fewer Parameters but Higher Compute Costs Than LLMs | Gabriele Corso | Feb 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Dean: Scaling quadratic attention cannot reach billion- or trillion-token context windows | Jeff Dean | Feb 12, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Casado: A $1B model training run economically justifies a custom ASIC | Martin Casado | Feb 19, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “one billion” | The Information: OpenAI hit $12B ARR as burn rose to $8B | Stephanie Palazzolo | Aug 6, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Dual reward signals prevent AI agent behavioral collapse in Factorio | Jack Hopkins | Apr 27, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Klein: Browserbase will be a billion-dollar company within five years | Paul Klein | Feb 28, 2025 | Open |
| 1B | “one billion” | Friedman: StackBlitz must choose between Bolt and WebContainers or raise $1B | Itamar Friedman | Dec 2, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Drew Houston: Google Maps did more for autonomy than actual self-driving | Drew Houston | Oct 18, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Liu: Fine-tuning on proprietary data at scale always beats off-the-shelf models | Jason Liu | Apr 24, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Liu: Instructor is not a billion-dollar startup opportunity | Jason Liu | Apr 24, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Huang: Context scaling requires positional interpolation rather than extrapolation | Mark Huang | May 31, 2024 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Huang: Adding one billion tokens cannot teach trillion-token models new knowledge | Mark Huang | May 31, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Liu: Long-context recall depends directly on needle-in-haystack training loss | Beyang Liu | Dec 17, 2023 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Cheah: Pre-Transformer Academic Neural Network Research Is No Longer Relevant | Eugene Cheah | Aug 31, 2023 | — |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | OpenAI Spent $7 Billion on Compute, With $5 Billion for R&D | Shawn Wang | Nov 14, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 700M | “a six hundred million” | Rives: The ESMC family includes 300M, 600M, and 6B parameter models | Alex Rives | May 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 600M | “six hundred million” | CommandCode offers 600 million DeepSeek tokens for $1 per month | Ahmad Awais | Jun 6, 2026 | — |
| 600M | “six hundred million” | NVIDIA's 600M Parameter Parakeet Model Tops Speech Transcription Leaderboards | Kwindla Hultman Kramer | May 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Swyx: Stanford RL students founded pre-product startup with $500M valuation | Shawn Wang | Jul 2, 2025 | Supported |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Conover: Labor flow networks predict next-quarter S&P 500 market cap changes | Mike Conover | Jun 11, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 400M | “a three hundred million” | Rives: The ESMC family includes 300M, 600M, and 6B parameter models | Alex Rives | May 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | CZ Biohub commits $500M to scale biological data creation and technology development | Alex Rives | May 27, 2026 | — |
| 400M | “a three hundred million” | Brockman: OpenAI's Dota AI used only 300 million parameters | Greg Brockman | Aug 15, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Parakhin: Shopify runs a 300M parameter Liquid model under 30ms for search | Mikhail Parakhin | Apr 22, 2026 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Jeff Dean: Distillation originated to compress 50-model ensembles into serviceable form | Jeff Dean | Feb 12, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Swix: Pydantic reached nearly 300 million downloads in December | Shawn Wang | Feb 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Robicheaux: PaliGemma 1 Pre-Training Saturates at 300M Examples | Peter Robicheaux | Dec 22, 2024 | Supported |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Daigle: GitHub has surpassed 200 million registered developers | Kyle Daigle | Jun 2, 2026 | Supported |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Sands: Stripe Link Surpasses 200 Million Consumers | Emily Glassberg Sands | Oct 30, 2025 | Supported |
| 200M | “Two hundred million” | Fanelli: Cursor Default Model Switch Cost Anthropic $200M in ARR | Alessio Fanelli | Sep 25, 2025 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Weil: ChatGPT supports over 200 million weekly active users | Kevin Weil | Oct 4, 2024 | Supported |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Reddit makes over 200 million dollars in AI data licensing deals | Alessio Fanelli | Aug 2, 2024 | Supported |
| 130M | “a hundred thirty million” | Welling: CuspAI has raised $130 million and expanded to 40 people | Max Welling | Feb 25, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | CZ Biohub commits $500M to scale biological data creation and technology development | Alex Rives | May 27, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Algorithmic unhobblers could soon expand context windows to 100 million tokens | Kyle Kranen | Mar 8, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Swyx: AI context windows will remain capped near 1M for 5-10 years | Shawn Wang | Feb 24, 2026 | Open |
| 100M | “hundred million” | Glean Operates at a Several Hundred Million Dollar Revenue Scale | Deedy Das | Nov 14, 2025 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Yurtseven confirms Fal.ai has surpassed $100M in revenue | Gorkem Yurtseven | Sep 8, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “hundred million” | Meta research: Sub-1B language models benefit more from depth than width | Loubna Ben Allal | Dec 24, 2024 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Swyx: HeyGen has reached $100 million in ARR | Shawn Wang | Jan 1, 2025 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Fanelli: 133 AI funding rounds exceeded $100M in 2024 | Alessio Fanelli | Jan 1, 2025 | Supported |
| 80M | “eighty million” | Asawa: Abridge holds proprietary dataset approaching hundreds of millions of medical conversations | Chai Asawa | May 14, 2026 | — |
| 61M | “a sixty million” | Casado: AI venture rounds now routinely require complex strategic compute contracts | Martin Casado | Feb 19, 2026 | — |
| 60M | “sixty million” | Eifrem: Novo Nordisk graph deployment spans over 60 million documents | Emil Eifrem | Apr 18, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 60M | “sixty million” | Swyx: VC appetite for GPU-rich early-stage startups is completely gone | Shawn Wang | Jan 1, 2025 | — |
| 52M | “two-fifty million” | Agarwal: Synthetic Data Distillation Can Outperform Logits on Benchmarks | Rishabh Agarwal | Mar 23, 2025 | Supported |
| 51M | “fifty one million” | Agrawal: Positron AI raised a $51M Series A for next-gen silicon | Mitesh Agrawal | Aug 18, 2025 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Arena processes tens of millions of conversations monthly, totaling 250 million | Anastasios Angelopoulos | Dec 31, 2025 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Mirzadegan: Hiring $50M+ ARR Sales Reps at Seed/Series A Usually Fails | Joubin Mirzadegan | Dec 12, 2025 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Speak has surpassed $50 million in annual recurring revenue | Andrew Hsu | Jul 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Unstuck AI's launch campaign reached 250 million views in one month | Sid Bendre | Apr 23, 2025 | — |
| 49M | “forty nine million” | Nelson: Roboflow users labeled 49M images using SAM in one year | Joseph Nelson | Aug 7, 2024 | — |
| 40M | “forty million” | Li: Evolution spent 540M years on spatial intelligence versus 0.5M on language | Fei-Fei Li | Nov 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 40M | “forty million” | Conover: Economic incentives to pre-train commodity foundation models from scratch are diminishing | Mike Conover | Jun 11, 2024 | — |
| 38M | “thirty-eight million” | Nelson: Smallest SAM 2 model has 38M parameters and runs at 45 FPS | Joseph Nelson | Aug 7, 2024 | Supported |
| 30M | “Thirty million” | Jeff Dean: LLM search funnels trillions of tokens down to 100 documents | Jeff Dean | Feb 12, 2026 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Sands: Top 100 AI startups reach ARR milestones 2-3x faster than SaaS | Emily Glassberg Sands | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Wu: Global software engineers grew from under 1M in 2000 to over 30M in 2025 | Scott Wu | Jul 28, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Ravi: SAM 2's largest model is 224M parameters, one-third of SAM 1 | Nikhila Ravi | Aug 7, 2024 | Supported |
| 25M | “twenty-five million” | Chan: CELLxGENE corpus reached 125M cells with 75% community contribution | Priscilla Chan | Nov 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 24M | “twenty-four million” | Ravi: SAM 2's largest model is 224M parameters, one-third of SAM 1 | Nikhila Ravi | Aug 7, 2024 | Supported |
| 22M | “twenty two million” | Ruiz: tldraw's 'Make It Real' demo garnered 22 million views in 30 days | Steve Ruiz | Jan 5, 2024 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Algorithmic unhobblers could soon expand context windows to 100 million tokens | Kyle Kranen | Mar 8, 2026 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Rajpal: Waymo had 20 million real-world miles versus 20 billion in simulation | Shreya Rajpal | Sep 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Mlejnsky: LangChain gets 20 million monthly downloads and remains popular | Vasek Mlejnsky | Apr 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Swyx: Suno grew from zero to $20M ARR running on Modal | Shawn Wang | Jan 1, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Swyx: Claude wrapper Bolt.new reached $20M ARR | Shawn Wang | Jan 1, 2025 | Supported |
| 15M | “fifteen million” | Mlejnsky: E2B ran around 15 million sandboxes in March 2025 | Vasek Mlejnsky | Apr 24, 2025 | — |
| 12M | “twelve million” | Midha: Stanford Holds America's Second-Largest Longitudinal Patient Dataset Behind the VA | Anjney Midha | Jun 18, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 11M | “a ten million” | Ethan He: Video Models Must Bootstrap From Image Diffusion Models for Semantic Understanding | Ethan He | Jun 1, 2026 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Biderman: Model accuracy will still degrade at 10M context window scale | Dan Biderman | Jul 13, 2026 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Algorithmic unhobblers could soon expand context windows to 100 million tokens | Kyle Kranen | Mar 8, 2026 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Sands: Top 100 AI startups reach ARR milestones 2-3x faster than SaaS | Emily Glassberg Sands | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Taskaya: Flux grew Fal's revenue from $2M to $20M in two months | Batuhan Taskaya | Sep 8, 2025 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Falk: Zeus originally targeted Global 2000 companies for $5M-$10M contracts | Brendan Falk | Sep 18, 2025 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Ramachandran: Codeium grew from zero to $10M ARR in under a year | Anshul Ramachandran | Jul 28, 2025 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Beauchamp: Small trading funds hold an advantage exploiting niche market anomalies | William Beauchamp | Jan 26, 2025 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Ramachandran: Codeium reached $10M enterprise ARR in under a year | Anshul Ramachandran | Dec 13, 2024 | — |
| 10M | “Ten million” | Altman: 10-million-token fast context windows are coming within months | Sam Altman | Oct 4, 2024 | Held up |
| 10M | “ten million” | Cheah: Standard Transformers Will Never Scale to Ten Million Tokens | Eugene Cheah | Aug 31, 2023 | Didn’t hold up |
| 9M | “nine million” | Swyx: Obsidian scaled its product with only four team members | Shawn Wang | May 7, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 8M | “eight million” | Nelson: Users Ran 8 Million Inferences in SAM 3's First Five Days | Joseph Nelson | Dec 18, 2025 | — |
| 8M | “eight million” | Swyx: Claude wrapper Bolt.new reached $20M ARR | Shawn Wang | Jan 1, 2025 | Supported |
| 8M | “eight million” | Lambert: Meta spent roughly $6M to $8M on Llama 2 preference data | Nathan Lambert | Jan 11, 2024 | — |
| 7M | “seven million” | Azhnyuk: Ukraine made 4M FPV drones last year with 7M targeted this year | Yaroslav Azhnyuk | May 18, 2026 | Supported |
| 7M | “a six million” | Brightwave raises $6M Seed round led by Decibel Partners | Mike Conover | Jun 11, 2024 | — |
| 6M | “six million” | Nelson: Roboflow Records 106 Million Annotations Powered by Meta SAM | Joseph Nelson | Dec 18, 2025 | — |
| 6M | “a five million” | Falk: Scoping large custom enterprise contracts requires only marginally more work than small ones | Brendan Falk | Sep 18, 2025 | — |
| 6M | “a five million” | Fanelli: Small venture funds cannot back AI inference startups with $5M rounds | Alessio Fanelli | Aug 6, 2025 | — |
| 6M | “a five million” | Bryk: Exa purchased a $5 million Nvidia H200 GPU cluster | Will Bryk | Jan 10, 2025 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Huber: Flawless 60k-token reasoning is more valuable than 5M-token context | Jeff Huber | Aug 19, 2025 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Oleve reports $6M ARR, 5M users, and sustained profitability | Sid Bendre | Apr 23, 2025 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Beauchamp: Quant trading firm made £5 million annually with 15-person team | William Beauchamp | Jan 26, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 5M | “five million” | Nelson: Roboflow users labeled 49M images using SAM in one year | Joseph Nelson | Aug 7, 2024 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Prakash predicts up to 5 million AI GPUs will sell in 2024 | Vipul Ved Prakash | Feb 8, 2024 | Held up |
| 4M | “four million” | Azhnyuk: Ukraine made 4M FPV drones last year with 7M targeted this year | Yaroslav Azhnyuk | May 18, 2026 | Supported |
| 4M | “a three million” | Cooper: Companies will reserve massive token budgets for elite AI developers | Jake Cooper | May 20, 2026 | — |
| 4M | “four million” | OpenAI reports 4 million active developers at DevDay 2025 | Shawn Wang | Oct 7, 2025 | Supported |
| 4M | “four million” | Fanelli: Bolt Generated $4M in Revenue in Its First Four Weeks | Alessio Fanelli | Dec 2, 2024 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | Cooper: Railway has scaled to 3 million users | Jake Cooper | May 20, 2026 | Supported |
| 3M | “three million” | Shah: I built a personal vector store indexing 3 million of my emails | Dharmesh Shah | Mar 28, 2025 | — |
| 3M | “a two million” | Dan Fu: Nobody is actually submitting 2M token prompts into LLMs | Dan Fu | Dec 24, 2024 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | Huet: Over 3 million developers build on OpenAI | Romain Huet | Oct 4, 2024 | Supported |
| 3M | “three million” | Liu: Fine-tuning on proprietary data at scale always beats off-the-shelf models | Jason Liu | Apr 24, 2024 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | Patel: Nvidia will sell over 3 million GPUs in 2024 | Dylan Patel | Dec 5, 2023 | Held up |
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