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Morning Edition · Tuesday, August 11, 2026Published at 2:26 AM EDT · New York
Schmidt Puts Frontier Training Runs at $200m to $500m With a Six-Month Useful Life
The former Google chief executive says he sees no evidence scaling has stopped, a position that raises rather than lowers the capital intensity of staying at the frontier.
Eric Schmidt, the former Google chief executive who now invests heavily across the sector, gave a figure for frontier economics this week: a frontier model costs $200 million to $500 million to build, and its commercially useful life is rou…
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