Compute gap means only OpenAI and a few frontier labs can afford insane swarm runs
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-22
The author argues the frontier race is a "double-edged binding vow": if everyone else fails, OpenAI ends up even further ahead. But the game is unfair—only OpenAI and a handful of frontier entities have the compute to spare for insane swarm runs, and the author half-jokingly suggests getting Amazon on board.
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