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Andy Halliday

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The Daily AI Show
Yann LeCun Leaves Meta, SoftBank’s $6B Move, and the Quantum Leap Ahead

And you're right.

The Daily AI Show
Yann LeCun Leaves Meta, SoftBank’s $6B Move, and the Quantum Leap Ahead

You're right.

The Daily AI Show
Yann LeCun Leaves Meta, SoftBank’s $6B Move, and the Quantum Leap Ahead

The highest costs are around 200 million for Gemini Ultra.

The Daily AI Show
Yann LeCun Leaves Meta, SoftBank’s $6B Move, and the Quantum Leap Ahead

But the reason I threw out the billion thing is that

The Daily AI Show
Yann LeCun Leaves Meta, SoftBank’s $6B Move, and the Quantum Leap Ahead

The most major research papers and leaders in the market, including from Anthropic, suggest that training runs approaching a billion may begin to occur as soon as 2026.

The Daily AI Show
Yann LeCun Leaves Meta, SoftBank’s $6B Move, and the Quantum Leap Ahead

They will exceed a billion dollars by 2027.

The Daily AI Show
Yann LeCun Leaves Meta, SoftBank’s $6B Move, and the Quantum Leap Ahead

Now, the training costs, you know, for the marginal cost of the

The Daily AI Show
Yann LeCun Leaves Meta, SoftBank’s $6B Move, and the Quantum Leap Ahead

training run itself does seem like a tiny fraction of what it costs to mount the data centers that are sufficient to do a training run and also then provide inference access for that model once it's trained.

The Daily AI Show
Yann LeCun Leaves Meta, SoftBank’s $6B Move, and the Quantum Leap Ahead

But you're right, I shouldn't just throw out a billion loosely like that, because it's only on the order of a quarter of that that the largest frontier models have spent, that we know of to date.

The Daily AI Show
Yann LeCun Leaves Meta, SoftBank’s $6B Move, and the Quantum Leap Ahead

Yeah.

The Daily AI Show
Yann LeCun Leaves Meta, SoftBank’s $6B Move, and the Quantum Leap Ahead

Okay.

The Daily AI Show
Yann LeCun Leaves Meta, SoftBank’s $6B Move, and the Quantum Leap Ahead

I'm going to move on to another news item here.

The Daily AI Show
Yann LeCun Leaves Meta, SoftBank’s $6B Move, and the Quantum Leap Ahead

Okay.

The Daily AI Show
Yann LeCun Leaves Meta, SoftBank’s $6B Move, and the Quantum Leap Ahead

This is news you can use.

The Daily AI Show
Yann LeCun Leaves Meta, SoftBank’s $6B Move, and the Quantum Leap Ahead

So Claude.

The Daily AI Show
Yann LeCun Leaves Meta, SoftBank’s $6B Move, and the Quantum Leap Ahead

Our anthropic, Claude, has just shared a new link that is at slash, so claude.com slash resources slash use dash cases.

The Daily AI Show
Yann LeCun Leaves Meta, SoftBank’s $6B Move, and the Quantum Leap Ahead

And I looked at that this morning.

The Daily AI Show
Yann LeCun Leaves Meta, SoftBank’s $6B Move, and the Quantum Leap Ahead

It's pretty compelling.

The Daily AI Show
Yann LeCun Leaves Meta, SoftBank’s $6B Move, and the Quantum Leap Ahead

Actually, I could share my screen here and you can look at it with us.

The Daily AI Show
Yann LeCun Leaves Meta, SoftBank’s $6B Move, and the Quantum Leap Ahead

Let me put that up.