Insider: Pre-training Trillion-Parameter Models Requires Only ~30K GPUs
zijing_wu · x · 2026-08-08
Addressing Chinese AI labs' confidence in having sufficient compute for 5-10 trillion parameter models, an insider revealed that pre-training such massive models actually requires only about 30,000 GPUs.
He pointed out that the real compute monster is inference compute. To manage massive inference costs, vendors will most likely end up serving distilled smaller models.
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