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Greg Brockman On OpenAI’s Plan To Win: Compute Rules All

Appearing at the Big Technology AI Summit Thursday, OpenAI president Greg Brockman indicated that winning the compute race could be the key to winning more broadly.

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If AI model capabilities continue to improve fast — and relatively in sync across frontier labs — the lab with the most compute will win in the end, OpenAI president Greg Brockman suggested at the Big Technology AI Summit on Thursday.

“There just is not going to be enough compute in the world to satisfy all the demand,” Brockman said. “Right now, we’re t…

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