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transdev12 • 09/04/2026 • 1 reply • view on HN

> the cost to build a modern agentic model is in the 10 figure range and growing

Source? The proliferation of labs building competent models would seem to suggest the opposite.


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intrasight • 09/05/2026

seems self evident if you read the new. You can Google it yourself, but here's the results from my googling - and this is just for the hardware. Double that to add personnel and corporate infrastructure

"To build or purchase the physical hardware required to store tens of petabytes of data and train a State-of-the-Art (SOTA) frontier AI model, you are looking at a capital expenditure (CapEx) ranging from $320 million to well over $1 billion."