Behind the Battle of Trillion-Level Computing Power: OpenAI Astra Has Burned Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, Where Are the Gaps Between Domestic Large Models and American Companies?
Recently, Anthropic released Fable5.1, and OpenAI launched Astra, further intensifying the global competition in large models. Although Astra has sparked discussions about its performance and cost-effectiveness, the massive financial and hardware consumption behind it highlights the gap in computing infrastructure between China and the United States. Reports indicate that OpenAI has not disclosed specific parameters, but it has used the StarGate program to train models utilizing over 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs.