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In February 2018, OpenAI signed a two-year compute contract with Google that had a $63M minimum spend.

See last page of their most recent available audited financials. https://rct.doj.ca.gov/Verification/Web/Download.aspx?saveas...

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So do they estimate how much computing power/time they will need and then find some upper tier minimum $ amount to get the maximum discount possible or getting a certain resource availability commitment from Google? That's an interesting accounting problem.

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