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The cost of training AI could soon become too much to bear
If current trends continue, new AI iterations would have to bring astounding benefits to justify the costs involved in training them, experts say
Although companies like OpenAI and Google don’t disclose the precise costs of training AI models like GPT-4 and Gemini, it’s clearly a fiendishly expensive business—and the bigger and more capable these so-called frontier models get, the more it cost... [5708 chars]