Researcher Warns Overestimated EU Frontier LLM Cost Figures Could Mislead Regulators
eliebakouch · x · 2026-09-15
LLM researcher eliebakouch warned that widely circulated cost estimates for building a frontier lab in the EU are inflated, and fears regulators may conclude it is impossible to build a frontier lab in Europe — which he calls very bad.
- He stresses nobody actually knows the number, but most researchers working on LLM training would give a much lower estimate.
- privitera (the document's author) replied that Part B contains a detailed cost breakdown and invited pushback on specific parts.
- The thread also debates whether the figures should be "corrected" in the document.
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