AI Training Compute Growth Chart, 1950 to 2025
Training compute doubled about every 21 months until 2010 and about every 6 months since, rising from Theseus in 1950 to GPT-4 and Gemini 1.0 Ultra in 2023.
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Training compute doubled about every 21 months until 2010 and about every 6 months since, rising from Theseus in 1950 to GPT-4 and Gemini 1.0 Ultra in 2023.
Penicillin, found in 1928, took 15 years to reach patients, while several classes from the 1950s were in use within a year.
Nepal drops from above 60% to close to zero, while India ends highest of the five at roughly 13%.
The ten deadliest wars account for 90% of the total, while most conventional wars killed a few thousand soldiers.
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