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How well did forecasters predict 2025 AI progress?

Mostly right about benchmarks, mixed results on real-world impacts

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Introducing the AI Chip Sales Data Explorer

We announce our new AI Chip Sales data explorer, which uses financial reports, company disclosures, and more to estimate compute, power usage, and…

Jan 14 • Epoch AI

An FAQ on Reinforcement Learning Environments

We interviewed 18 people across RL environment startups, neolabs, and frontier labs about the state of the field and where it's headed.

Jan 12 • JS Denain and Chris Barber

The Epoch AI Brief - December 2025

Benchmark stitching, scaffolds' effects on benchmarks, GPU power usage, decentralized training, Luis Garicano & EU AI policy, Alibaba data center in…

Dec 30, 2025 • Epoch AI

How far can decentralized training over the internet scale?

Decentralized AI training is growing fast, and while it likely won’t catch up to frontier models this decade, even narrowing the gap could have major…

Dec 29, 2025 • Jaime Sevilla

Why benchmarking is hard

Running benchmarks involves many moving parts, each of which can influence the final score. The two most impactful components are scaffolds and API…

Dec 23, 2025 • Florian Brand and JS Denain

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