AI Safety Research Program SPAR Expects to Spend $1-2M on Compute by Year-End
austinc3301 · x · 2026-09-22
A researcher revealed that SPAR, an AI safety research program, expects to spend $1-2 million on compute alone by end of year, noting the team is already positioned to make moderately large upfront compute commitments — a sign of rapidly rising compute costs in AI safety research.
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