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Outside reporting places the assumed 100,000-GPU Astra run at roughly 90–120 days, not two months, while making clear that the $500 million–$1 billion figure is a rate-based estimate rather than a disclosed cost. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: OpenAI’s ~$1 Billion GPT-6 Astra Heralds The Age Of AGI · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:e1f4c8c7ba769dca432e2df633e4d4c5a87df4326cafec4c47ec700a4729ac9d

Last week, OpenAI revealed that it had trained the GPT-6 Astra on a 100,000-GPU cluster. This gigantic training run is likely to have cost the high-flying AI lab anywhere between $500 million and $1 billion, assuming $2.50 - $3.50 in per GPU hourly costs: 100,000 GPUs x 24 hours x 90 days x $2.50 per GPU hourly cost = $540 million; ... 100,000 GPUs x 24 hours x 120 days x $3.50 per GPU hourly cost = $1.008 billion.