Researcher compensation makes up a significant proportion of the cost of developing the most powerful AI systems

Proportion of total development cost attributable to each cost category

OPT-175B
41%
28%
29%
1.7%
$3M
GPT-3 175B
34%
30%
33%
3%
$7M
GPT-4
29%
32%
33%
6%
$125M
Gemini 1.0 Ultra
49%
23%
24%
4.5%
$125M
Estimate for full development process, including experimentation and fine-tuning. Compensation includes equity.
Chart: Will Henshall for TIMESource: Epoch AIGet the dataCreated with Datawrapper