Estimating the Development Cost of ChatGPT

I think the real cost is not just money but the years of research and trial-and-error that went into it.

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I bet the budget includes not just the training but also data collection, cleaning, and all the infrastructure.

It'd be cool if OpenAI shared a breakdown but I guess that’s unlikely anytime soon.

Honestly, I think it must've been insanely expensive considering the compute power needed for training those huge models.

Anyone know if the cost includes paying the researchers and engineers? That must be a big chunk too.

I wonder how much cheaper it'll get to build similar models in the future with advancements in hardware.

I wonder if OpenAI used any special tricks to reduce costs or if they just threw money at the problem.

Not sure about the exact amount but I've heard numbers around $10-20 million for building something like this.

I've read somewhere that training GPT-3 alone was estimated to cost several million dollars, so ChatGPT definitely wasn't cheap!