ClaimsDemis Hassabis

“I don’t think that’s the case. I think that actually Gemini 1 used roughly the same amount of compute, maybe slightly more, than what was rumored for GPT-4.”

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind 28 February 2024 Demis Hassabis — Scaling, superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, AlphaFold (Dwarkesh Podcast)

Factual AI compute, hardware and data

Hassabis said he thinks Gemini 1 used roughly the same amount of compute as was rumored for GPT-4, maybe slightly more, though he said he did not know exactly what was used for GPT-4.

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Reasoning

Gemini 1 training compute is not publicly disclosed and GPT-4's is only rumored.

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Demis Hassabis, “Hassabis said he thinks Gemini 1 used roughly the same amount of compute as was rumored for GPT-4, maybe slightly more, though he said he did not know exactly what was used for GPT-4.” (said 28 February 2024). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_aed1b8bd499f, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_aed1b8bd499f

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