The next generation foundation models (GPT-5, Gemini 2, Gemini 3) will have training costs of approximately $1 billion each just for the base model, and largest data centers contain 200,000 chips, such that training costs will rapidly consume the entire $500 billion Stargate budget.
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Unidentified Speaker — Eric Schmidt and Craig Mundie with David Rubenstein: Genesis [lBTnZYFRlmI]Evidence Quote
“the next iteration of foundation models which is think of it as gp5 and Gemini two and three and so forth look like they're going to cost about a billion Dollar in training cost just to get the base model”
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:49:18 AM
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