[docdeek]

> The compute moat is getting absolutely insane. We're basically at the point where you need a small country's GDP just to stay in the game for one more generation of models.

For what it is worth, $13 billion is about the GDP of Somalia (about 150th in nomimal GDP) with a population of 15 million people.

[Aeolun]

As a fun comparison, because I saw the population is more or less the same.

The GDP of the Netherlands is about $1.2 trillion with a population of 18 million people.

I understand that that’s not quite what’s meant with ‘small country’ but in both population and size it doesn’t necessarily seem accurate.

[Aurornis]

Country scale is weird because it has such a large range.

California (where Anthropic is headquartered) has over twice as many people as all of Somalia.

The state of California has a GDP of $4.1 Trillion. $13 billion is a rounding error at that scale.

Even the San Francisco Bay Area alone has around half as many people as Somalia.