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Friar: OpenAI expects each successive frontier model to scale 10x

Sarah Friar · The 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model With 300 IQ · Y Combinator · Nov 1, 2024 · at 1:22

Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI, explains why frontier model scaling laws require massive capital investment.

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“But I think there is no denying that you are, we're on a scaling law right now where orders of magnitude matter. The next model is going to be an order of magnitude bigger and the next one on and on. And so that does make it very capital intensive.”

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Successive frontier AI models will each scale up by an order of magnitude, making AI model development highly capital intensive.

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