~90% of frontier lab compute now goes to post-training and inference
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-07
Citing Social Capital's claim that 90% of frontier lab compute now goes to post-training and inference, this thread argues the AI profitability narrative is broken: training costs scale alongside inference and are exploding just as fast, and excluding training costs from net income calculations is 'really stupid.'
Related event: Frontier Labs Shift 90% of Compute to Post-Training and Inference(4 posts)→
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