Compute · Global · Jul 25, 2025
1.4x per year growth in how long frontier LLM systems spend training, since 2020
1.4x
per year growth in how long frontier LLM systems spend training, since 2020
Epoch AI data insight, with a 90% confidence interval of 1.3x to 1.5x.
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1.4x
Epoch AI · Jul 25, 2025theainumber.com
“We show that, since 2020, the time that frontier LLM systems spend training has grown by about 1.4x per year (90% CI: 1.3x to 1.5x).”
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