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Will financing bottleneck AI compute? An Anthropic case study

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Why Anthropic's buildout suggests that financing is unlikely to be the immediate blocker to frontier AI compute growth.

This post is part of Epoch AI’s Gradient Updates newsletter, which shares more opinionated or informal takes on big questions in AI progress. These posts solely represent the views of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Epoch AI as a whole. Compute scaling has driven much of the progress in AI so far. But maintaining recent growth rates requires exponentially increasing amounts of capital: The largest frontier labs are now planning infrastructure deployments that cost tens to hundreds of billions of dollars, substantially beyond their current profits and potentially…

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