Frontier Labs Spend 10–20% of Compute on Training Monitoring and Inference

a16z partner Anjney Midha said frontier labs now spend over 10% of total compute monitoring training to keep RL agents under control, while a tweet citing OpenAI noted roughly 20% of inference compute goes to training, evaluation and internal use, with calls for other labs to disclose similar data.

2026-08-19 ~ 2026-08-19 · 2 related posts

• a16z partner: 10%+ of frontier lab compute now monitors training to keep agents in check — eliebakouch · 2026-08-19
• OpenAI uses ~20% compute for inference during training — eliebakouch · 2026-08-19