> The two numbers mentioned in the article are 176 mil and 612 mil. Those two numbers are from the intro. The postscript and the updates at the end mention $1.

> The two numbers mentioned in the article are 176 mil and 612 mil. Those two numbers are from the intro. The postscript and the updates at the end mention $1.4b and $3b respectively. The real cost is probably impossible to calculate, but that order of magnitude is a reasonable estimate IMHO, and absolutely comparable, or even larger, than compute costs for SOTA LLMs