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Symbol C_total
total lifetime cost.
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Total compute
All computation spent on this deployed model system over its lifetime.
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Dense, Sparse, and Distilled: Comparing Approaches to Frontier Model Capacity · Equation 27
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Equation guide → · This term → · Article →OpenAI Model Systems from First Principles: Weights, Post-Training, and Inference Compute · Equation 1
The total compute bill has three parts: pretraining, post-training, and all the requests served afterwards.
Equation guide → · This term → · Article →OpenAI Model Systems from First Principles: Weights, Post-Training, and Inference Compute · Equation 18
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