The brief framed this as a fresh essay on compute concentration, but the real story is different. It's Amodei's 2017 internal OpenAI memo, never published before, with the first ten pages of a 25+ page document now out via Roose.

ًü§ñ Dario Amodei's 2017 "Big Blob of Compute" memo is finally public

Kevin Roose just published the first ten pages of the internal OpenAI doc. It was never released outside OpenAI and has taken on mythical status inside the industry. The thesis is that cleverness matters less than raw compute, data, and training time.

GPT-2 was the experiment to test it, and when it worked, OpenAI went all-in on scaling. The industry is now spending trillions on the blob.

(Roose is also selling a book tomorrow. Timing's a coincidence, sure.)