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Insights and analysis on AI trends, developments, and research from Epoch AI.

Toward an O*NET for AI R&D

Proposing a new way to track AI research automation

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The Epoch Brief - June 12, 2026

Increased cyber vulnerability reports, Mythos' cyber hype, Fable 5's lead on FrontierMath v2, record-setting data centers, and what wealth distribution…
Published Jun 12
By Elliot Stewart

Are Mythos’ cyber capabilities overhyped?

Compiling all the public evidence on Mythos Preview’s cyber abilities
Published Jun 11
By Timothée Chauvin, Alexander Barry, JS Denain, and Anson Ho

Controlling the capital after AGI

A simple taxonomy of the main proposals for post-AGI universal redistribution
Published Jun 9
By Philip Trammell and Anson Ho

The Epoch Brief - June 1, 2026

How far open models lag the frontier, hyperscaler capex growth, and whether a compute crunch is nearing
Published Jun 1
By Epoch AI

Is a compute crunch coming?

We estimated trends in global inference capacity and found that token demand appears to be growing much faster than supply.
Published May 26
By Luke Emberson and Jaime Sevilla

The Epoch Brief - May 22, 2026

Memory's growing cost, top labs' share of global compute, and FM:OP workshops kick-off
Published May 22
*By Epoch AI