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AI companies by annual compute spend

2 companies ranked by annual compute spend.
OpenAI is out in front at $16.3B.

2 companieschecked Jul 13, 2026, 12:00 PM UTCdailyhow we measure this →CSV / JSON

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OpenAI

Latest annual, non-excluded compute-spend cohort per company. A published Total compute spend is preferred; otherwise non-overlapping inference and R&D components are summed.

Some explanation inputs are unavailable Missing: publicFrozenEvidence, comparablePriorRanking.

Published rank
#1
Score
16.3
Sample size
1

75% confidence · 17% component coverage · as of Jul 13, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC

SCORE CONSTRUCTION

Component ledger

1/6 evidenced
Components contributing to OpenAI's rank
ComponentValueWeightContributionEvidenceStatus
attributionSource: Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)Unavailable0unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence
epoch AI company annual compute spend USD16300000000.0000000000100%16.31available
evidenceUnavailable0unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence
missingIsZero0Unavailable0unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence
rawValue16300000000.0000000000Unavailable0unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence
score16.3000000000Unavailable0unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence
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PRIMARY EVIDENCE

Source trail

1 public records
  • Annual compute spendepoch AI company annual compute spend USD · observed Jul 13, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC$16.3B75% confidence
    Source
    Epoch AI open datasets
    Grade
    A
    Freshness
    fresh
    Locator
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REPRODUCIBILITYEpoch AI: ai-company-annual-compute-spend · v1.1.06 observations · 1 sources · passed quality
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