Frontier AI Evergreen explainer · neutral data, no opinion
Largest training compute
Current verified value
1×10²⁶
What it measures
The raw compute (floating-point operations) used to train the largest known model — the clearest single number behind AI's scaling, tracked by Epoch AI. It has grown ~4–5× per year; GPT-4 (2023) was the first at 1e25 FLOP, and frontier models passed 1e26 FLOP in 2025.
Glossary →History
By actor
Goal / baseline
now1×10²⁶
no fixed goal — scaling indicator