Frontier AI
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Largest training compute

The raw compute (floating-point operations) used to train the largest known model — the clearest single number behind AI's scaling, tracked by Epoch AI. It has grown ~4–5× per year; GPT-4 (2023) was the first at 1e25 FLOP, and frontier models passed 1e26 FLOP in 2025.

~1e26Reached · 2025
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  1. 1e+26 FLOP 2025 Database · 2025
  2. 3.8e+25 FLOP 2024 Meta AI Database · 2025
  3. 2.1e+25 FLOP 2023 OpenAI Database · 2025
  4. 2.53e+24 FLOP 2022 Google DeepMind Database · 2025
  5. 3.1e+23 FLOP 2020 OpenAI Database · 2025
  6. 5.04e+21 FLOP 2019 OpenAI Database · 2025
  7. 390000000000000000 FLOP 2017 Google DeepMind Database · 2025

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