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By the end of 2030 each leading lab will have compute to run hundreds of millions of human-level AIs.

Noam Brown, OpenAI · made Sep 17, 2026 · target Dec 2030 · Open

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So you could have a situation where each of the labs, by the end of 2030 [...] has enough compute to run hundreds of millions of human-level intelligences, based on what the capabilities will be at that point.
Noam Brown, Dwarkesh Podcast: Noam Brown, Agent swarms, alignment, and recursive self-improvement (the quote as reported there). [...] marks words left out.

The prediction

Who
Noam Brown, Researcher, OpenAI
Made
Sep 17, 2026
Target
Dec 31, 2030 (stated as "by the end of 2030")
Status
Openin 4 years
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