Epoch AI
Research institute tracking compute, scaling, and data limits
Epoch AI is the leading independent research group quantifying training-compute trends, scaling laws, and the looming exhaustion of high-quality text data ('peak data'). Its analyses are widely cited by investors and policymakers assessing whether scaling can continue. It is the empirical scorekeeper for the entire scaling thesis.
How it fits the stack
Epoch AI with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.
Epoch AI in the AI stack. Epoch AI with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.
Graph data (text) — 5 entities, 4 relationships
- Epoch AI —uses→ Inference economics / token deflation
- Epoch AI —uses→ Training Data & Web Corpus
- US Export Controls (BIS) —supplies→ Epoch AI
- Epoch AI —designs→ Frontier Evals (MMLU, GPQA, SWE-bench, ARC-AGI, HLE)
Depends on ↑ · 2
Context — capital, rivals, policy · · 1