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Training compute growth

Maximum disclosed training compute per year on a log10(FLOP) scale. Missing values remain absent; the current year is incomplete.

Training compute growth

Training compute growth2012-01-01: 17.78log10(FLOP); 2013-01-01: 18.42log10(FLOP); 2014-01-01: 20.47log10(FLOP); 2015-01-01: 20.58log10(FLOP); 2016-01-01: 21.82log10(FLOP); 2017-01-01: 20.93log10(FLOP); 2018-01-01: 21.94log10(FLOP); 2019-01-01: 23.03log10(FLOP); 2020-01-01: 23.50log10(FLOP); 2021-01-01: 24.31log10(FLOP); 2022-01-01: 24.44log10(FLOP); 2023-01-01: 25.70log10(FLOP); 2024-01-01: 25.58log10(FLOP); 2025-01-01: 26.70log10(FLOP); 2026-01-01: 27.00log10(FLOP)013.5272012-01-01: 17.78 log10(FLOP)2013-01-01: 18.42 log10(FLOP)2014-01-01: 20.47 log10(FLOP)2015-01-01: 20.58 log10(FLOP)2016-01-01: 21.82 log10(FLOP)2017-01-01: 20.93 log10(FLOP)2018-01-01: 21.94 log10(FLOP)2019-01-01: 23.03 log10(FLOP)2020-01-01: 23.50 log10(FLOP)2021-01-01: 24.31 log10(FLOP)2022-01-01: 24.44 log10(FLOP)2023-01-01: 25.70 log10(FLOP)2024-01-01: 25.58 log10(FLOP)2025-01-01: 26.70 log10(FLOP)2026-01-01: 27.00 log10(FLOP)01/0101/01 UTC

Total 468 · Page 8/19 · Observed 9/25/2026, 3:30:45 AM

NameGroupReported valueDateNotesSource
Meta Pseudo LabelsGoogle Brain,Google AI47,900,000,000,000,000,000,000 FLOP2021-03-01UnreleasedSource ↗
GShard (dense)Google47,650,000,000,000,000,000,000 FLOP2020-06-30UnreleasedSource ↗
Eagle 2Nvidia,Nanjing University,Tsinghua University,Hong Kong Polytechnic University,Johns Hopkins University,New York University (NYU)47,156,000,000,000,000,000,000 FLOP2025-01-20Open weights (non-commercial)—
DALL-EOpenAI47,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 FLOP2021-01-05API accessSource ↗
Volcano 13BKorea University,Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST),LG45,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 FLOP2023-11-13Open weights (non-commercial)Source ↗
CoAtNetGoogle,Google Research,Google Brain42,700,000,000,000,000,000,000 FLOP2021-06-09UnreleasedSource ↗
AlphaFold 3Google DeepMind,Isomorphic Labs41,405,645,000,000,000,000,000 FLOP2024-05-08Open weights (non-commercial)Source ↗
BASIC-LGoogle41,200,000,000,000,000,000,000 FLOP2021-11-19UnreleasedSource ↗
RDT-1BTsinghua University40,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 FLOP2024-10-10Open weights (unrestricted)Source ↗
Pangu-WeatherHuawei39,800,000,000,000,000,000,000 FLOP2023-07-05Open weights (non-commercial)Source ↗
ProtBERT-BFDTechnical University of Munich,Nvidia,Seoul National University,Google,Oak Ridge National Laboratory,Med AI Technology39,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 FLOP2021-05-04Open weights (unrestricted)Source ↗
Student of GamesDeepMind36,679,273,004,682,866,000,000 FLOP2021-12-06UnreleasedSource ↗
Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3BAlibaba36,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 FLOP2025-09-22Open weights (unrestricted)Source ↗
PLUGAlibaba35,997,696,000,000,000,000,000 FLOP2021-04-19Hosted access (no API)Source ↗
GQA-8-XXLGoogle Research34,912,896,000,000,000,000,000 FLOP2023-12-23UnreleasedSource ↗
XLMR-XXLFacebook AI Research33,660,000,000,000,000,000,000 FLOP2021-08-17Open weights (unrestricted)Source ↗
T5-11BGoogle33,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 FLOP2019-10-23Open weights (unrestricted)Source ↗
SPHINX (Llama 2 13B)Shanghai AI Lab,Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK),ShanghaiTech University30,400,000,000,000,000,000,000 FLOP2023-11-13Open weights (restricted use)Source ↗
Turing ULRv5Microsoft28,983,951,000,000,000,000,000 FLOP2021-09-28Hosted access (no API)Source ↗
CogViewTsinghua University,Alibaba DAMO Academy26,800,000,000,000,000,000,000 FLOP2021-05-26Open weights (unrestricted)Source ↗
Noisy Student (L2)Carnegie Mellon University (CMU),Google26,120,000,000,000,000,000,000 FLOP2019-11-11UnreleasedSource ↗
ALIGNGoogle Research25,986,700,000,010,000,000,000 FLOP2021-06-11UnreleasedSource ↗
DeBERTaMicrosoft25,880,000,000,000,000,000,000 FLOP2021-06-10Open weights (unrestricted)Source ↗
GOATDeepMind24,120,000,000,000,000,000,000 FLOP2021-07-27UnreleasedSource ↗
XGLM-7.5BMeta AI,Facebook AI Research22,500,000,000,000,000,000,000 FLOP2021-12-20Open weights (non-commercial)Source ↗

Data: Epoch AI · CC BY · View source · Automatically synced; not an exhaustive global sample