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27.04.26 - 06:42
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Compute Costs More Than Talent In AI (ZeroHedge)
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Compute Costs More Than Talent In AI
For leading AI companies, the biggest expense is not talent. It is compute.
This chart from Visual Capitalist's AI Week, sponsored by Terzo, uses Epoch AI data to compare spending at Anthropic, Minimax, and Z.ai across R&D compute, inference compute, and staff plus other costs.
In every case, compute accounts for the majority of total spending, underscoring how capital-intensive it has become to build and serve frontier AI models.
How AI Company Costs Break Down
Despite differences in scale, all three companies allocate the largest share of their budgets to a single category: compute.
The data below compares spending composition across Anthropic, Minimax, and Z.ai. Anthropic's figures are for 2025, while Minimax's are from Q1 to Q3 of 2025 and Z.ai's are for H1 2025.
Across all three AI companies, compute is the main cost center. Epoch AI estimates that R&D compute and inference compute together account for 57% to 70% of total spending, making ...
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20.04.26 - 03:45
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H Shrs: HSI Opens Up 44 pts; Oil Stocks Fall; MiniMax Gains Over 3% (AAStocks)
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After Iran reopened and then reblocked the Strait of Hormuz, the DJIA surged more than 800 points last Fri (17th), while futures retreated 400 points during the Asian session. In Hong Kong, the HSI opened up 44 points or 0.2% at 26,204. The HSCEI opened up 11 points or 0.1% at 8,856. The HSTECH opened up 16 points or 0.3% at 5,0......
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13.04.26 - 03:30
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MiniMax M2.7 Open-Sources Globally, Being Industrys 1st Self-Improving Model (AAStocks)
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MINIMAX-W (00100.HK), a domestic large model company, announced that its MiniMax M2.7 has been officially open-sourced globally. Together with Huawei Ascend, MOORE THREADS (688795.SH), METAX (688802.SH), Kunlunxin, Nvidia (NVDA.US), as well as TogetherAI, Fireworks, Ollama and other chipmakers and inference platforms at home and......
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10.04.26 - 09:45
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MINIMAX-W Rolls Out New-Gen Music Generation Model Music 2.6 (AAStocks)
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MINIMAX-W (00100.HK), a Chinese large model maker, launched a new-generation music generation model, Music 2.6, today (10th).Music 2.6 has undergone a deep restructuring of its underlying generation architecture, featuring first-packet latency significantly reduced to within 20 seconds.MINIMAX-W also launched and open-sourced th......
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