NVIDIA's $1B Single-Model Training Forecast Landed Years Ahead of Schedule
IgorCarron · x · 2026-09-05
Igor Carron resurfaces a 2021 Next Platform piece where NVIDIA's Bryan Catanzaro predicted a company could spend $1B in compute to train a single language model by around 2026. He notes the milestone arrived early: customers were already willing to spend $1B on LLMs in 2023 — even NVIDIA's own scaling predictions proved too conservative.
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