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Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu Train once, deploy many: AI and increasing returns online AI’s “train-once-deploy-many” advantage yields increasing returns: doubling compute more than doubles output by increasing models’ inference efficiency and enabling more deployed inference instances.

Train once, deploy many: AI and increasing returns

Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu

Epoch AI, March 7, 2025

Abstract

AI’s “train-once-deploy-many” advantage yields increasing returns: doubling compute more than doubles output by increasing models’ inference efficiency and enabling more deployed inference instances.

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