OpenAI uses ~20% compute for inference during training
eliebakouch · x · 2026-08-19
Tweet discusses compute allocation during model training. OpenAI mentioned 20% of "inference compute" (likely including RL training) is used for training, evaluation, and internal usage. The author hopes other labs share similar monitoring and deployment data.
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