| ▲ | docdeek 3 days ago | |
> The compute moat is getting absolutely insane. We're basically at the point where you need a small country's GDP just to stay in the game for one more generation of models. For what it is worth, $13 billion is about the GDP of Somalia (about 150th in nomimal GDP) with a population of 15 million people. | ||
| ▲ | Aeolun 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
As a fun comparison, because I saw the population is more or less the same. The GDP of the Netherlands is about $1.2 trillion with a population of 18 million people. I understand that that’s not quite what’s meant with ‘small country’ but in both population and size it doesn’t necessarily seem accurate. | ||
| ▲ | Aurornis 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Country scale is weird because it has such a large range. California (where Anthropic is headquartered) has over twice as many people as all of Somalia. The state of California has a GDP of $4.1 Trillion. $13 billion is a rounding error at that scale. Even the San Francisco Bay Area alone has around half as many people as Somalia. | ||