# AI and Compute

https://blog.cynexia.com/ai-and-compute

Author: [Rob Aleck](https://blog.cynexia.com/pages/about) · https://github.com/mnbf9rca · https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertaleck/ · https://family-foqos.app/

Published: 2018-05-31
Categories: LinkedIn cross-post


"Improvements in compute have been a key component of AI progress" - with compute capacity used by AI doubling every 3.5 months for the last 16 years

[https://blog.openai.com/ai-and-compute/](<https://web.archive.org/web/20180531221323/https://blog.openai.com/ai-and-compute/>)?  
[https://blog.openai.com/ai-and-compute/](<https://web.archive.org/web/20180531221323/https://blog.openai.com/ai-and-compute/>)Since 2012, the amount of compute used in the largest AI training runs has been increasing exponentially with a 3.5 month doubling time (by comparison, Moore's Law had an 18 month doubling period).