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Epoch AIResearchWhat Huawei’s Horinger data center reveals about China’s compute gap This is a condensed version of a longer report on our website Huawei, China’s biggest AI chip developer, is drawing on China’s abundant energy to build data centers.

Epoch AIResearchThe Epoch Brief - November 11, 2026 Welcome to the Epoch Brief. Here’s what we’ve been working on: An open-weight AI model autonomously hacked six Firefox versions for ~$1,000 each.

Epoch AIResearchAI can turn public security fixes into working exploits before users receive an update This is a summary of a longer report on our website Imagine you’re one of Firefox’s 200 million users. You visit a website, the page loads, and you leave without clicking on anything.

Epoch AIResearchWe tried to automate Epoch This is a summary of a longer report on our website. AIs continue to saturate new benchmarks year after year.

Epoch AIResearchThe Epoch Brief - October 23, 2026 Welcome to the Epoch Brief. Here’s what we’ve been working on: Can AI automate our own jobs? We gave six AI models 11 realistic tasks drawn from work at Epoch, from designing graphics to drafting…

Epoch AIResearchCan AI automate AI R&D yet? This is a summary of a longer report on our website. Leading AI companies say they are building automated AI researchers .

Epoch AIResearchThe Epoch Brief - October 8, 2026 Welcome back to the Epoch Brief. In this edition, we’re covering: Proliferating agents and plummeting costs.

Epoch AIResearchHundreds of millions of AI agents are coming. Is there work for them? This is a summary of a longer report on our website. Anthropic’s Dario Amodei has described a future “country of geniuses in a datacenter”, but could we actually see AI spitting out a country’s worth…

Epoch AIResearchAI is getting cheaper faster than any other transformative technology This is a summary of a longer report on our website. Would you be surprised if the sticker price on a new car fell from $50,000 to $296 in two years? Because that’s how fast AI is getting cheaper.

Epoch AIResearchHow far behind Nvidia is Huawei? This is a summary of a more detailed report , available on our website. The US-China AI competition spans everything from models and data centers to chips and the manufacturing equipment used to make…

Epoch AIResearchThe Epoch Brief - September 12, 2026 Welcome back to the Epoch Brief! It’s been longer between Briefs than usual, so buckle up for a rich edition.

Epoch AIResearchAn update on AI’s most important number This post is part of Epoch AI’s Gradient Updates newsletter, which shares more opinionated or informal takes on big questions in AI progress.

Epoch AIResearchThe Nvidia-sized hole in US GDP statistics The AI boom has driven US investment in computing equipment to roughly $400 billion per year, nearly triple its 2023 level. Yet the measured impact on GDP growth has remained modest.

Epoch AIResearch9 Big questions benchmarks can help answer This post is part of Epoch AI’s Gradient Updates newsletter, which shares more opinionated or informal takes on big questions in AI progress.

Epoch AIResearchWill financing bottleneck AI compute? An Anthropic case study This post is part of Epoch AI’s Gradient Updates newsletter, which shares more opinionated or informal takes on big questions in AI progress.

Epoch AIResearchThe Epoch Brief - July 31, 2026 Welcome to the Epoch Brief! Plenty has landed since the last edition: The launch of the expanded FrontierMath: Open Problems , our benchmark of unsolved problems in research mathematics.

Epoch AIResearchOpenAI accidentally hacked Hugging Face — should we have seen it coming? This post is part of Epoch AI’s Gradient Updates newsletter, which shares more opinionated or informal takes on big questions in AI progress.

Epoch AIResearchThe Epoch Brief - July 8, 2026 Welcome back to the Epoch Brief! In this edition: The launch of EBR-bench , our benchmark that uses a complex board game to test AI’s ability to learn from experience.

Epoch AIResearchThe missing half of AI futurism debates This post is part of Epoch AI’s Gradient Updates newsletter, which shares more opinionated or informal takes on big questions in AI progress.

Epoch AIResearchThe Epoch Brief - June 26, 2026 Welcome to another edition of the Epoch Brief! Here’s what’s new: The launch of MirrorCode , our new long-horizon coding benchmark, co-developed with METR, to better measure the limits of autonomous…
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