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Today, many state-of-the-art AI models cost at least $100 million to train—a steep jump from the $670 price tab for training the groundbreaking Transformer model in 2017.
Moreover, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, said that $1 billion training costs are already underway.
For Gemini Ultra, a large chunk of the costs were for research and development staff salaries (including equity)—making up to 49% of the final cost. Meanwhile, AI accelerator chips accounted for 23% of the total cost, followed by 15% for other server components.