If the frontier from 6 to 12 months ago runs on a roughly $2,500 GPU, teams can plan local or private deployments around a predictable lag. Epoch cautions the real-world gap may be longer.
Terms in this piece · Glossary
LLM — A large language model — the neural network behind tools like Claude and ChatGPT, trained on huge amounts of text to predict what comes next.
benchmark — A standard public test set for comparing AI models — the shared scoreboards behind every "model X beats model Y" claim.
