claim C-0046 Qualified
DePue: the largest runs used thousands of Blackwell GPUs; over half a billion dollars, likely billions in total
The report itself says "We are not confident in these estimates". They depend on assumed GPU efficiency (MFU), token counts, run lengths (none disclosed by the labs), and on training staying on the hardware that initialized the weights. The estimates were revised the same day (F-0045). The ~$70,000 per GPU figure is derived from a WSJ report on Malaysia/ByteDance.
Sources
- S-0045 · Unemployment Labs (report) · 2026-11-12 · link (full)
- S-0044 · X (post + thread) · 2026-11-12 · link (full)
Related
- F-0045 DePue revises his GPU-count and cost estimates upward on the same day
Referenced by (0)
Nothing else in the file references this note yet.