It’s hard to know, because in some ways it’s not really a research project. Those programs were comparable at least in size, if 500 billion of funding actually happens. But those projects were, at peak, 0.5 percent of U.S. GDP. Meta spent more money last year on H100 chips than was spent inflation-adjusted on the Manhattan Project.
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“It’s hard to know, because in some ways it’s not really a research project. Those programs were comparable at least in size, if 500 billion of funding actually happens. But those projects were, at peak, 0.5 percent of U.S. GDP. Meta spent more money last year on H100 chips than was spent inflation-adjusted on the Manhattan Project.“
