7GW-years is huge: researcher breaks down frontier-lab compute math and staffing
eliebakouch · x · 2026-09-14
Researcher eliebakouch dissects a rumored frontier-lab plan: Anthropic/OpenAI are renting massive compute, likely fronted by actors like Nebius or NVIDIA-backed companies. 7GW-years is enormous — 1GW/year for training alone is roughly 400-500k B300s, likely more than Astra was trained on. He also notes 3,000 staff is far more than needed to build a frontier lab; the third line he declines to comment on.
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