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The most expensive published machine learning training run as of mid-2022 cost about 3.2 million dollars in compute.

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The most expensive system to train was Minerva in 2022, at an estimated $3.2M

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Looking at the most expensive training runs over time... This cost record for AlphaGo Zero was not beaten until Megatron-Turing NLG and PaLM. The most expensive system to train was Minerva in 2022.

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