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> How/when did these types of regulations come about?

I can't say much about US. As I see it, EU pretty much copied US about that part. There was nothing related to computation in the EU's AI Act projects until few months ago, it was purely a "what kind of data processing are you allowed to do?"

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Politely, what the hell are you talking about? Who is telling anyone what they can or cannot compute?

US:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...

"Until such technical conditions are defined, the Secretary shall require compliance with these reporting requirements for:

          (i)   any model that was trained using a quantity of computing power greater than 1026 integer or floating-point operations, or using primarily biological sequence data and using a quantity of computing power greater than 1023 integer or floating-point operations[...]"

EU:

https://thefuturesociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/EU-A...

> 1026

> 1023

Should be 10^26 and 10^23.

Probably I did this wrong but I’m getting an approximation of 300K H100s completes that in a month. At least they choose something fairly large it seems. Not sure how LoRA or other incremental training is handled.

Depends on which spec you used, since the law doesn't specify the floating point width. If you used FP8 ops on the H100 SXM then a single GPU would hit the limit in 25265285497.72612 seconds. 300,000 GPUs would pass 10^26 FP8 ops in 23 hours.

Are they trying to bring back SIMD-within-a-register? Though that only gives you ~one order of magnitude doing packed 4-bit stuff with 64-bit GPRs. And perhaps fixed-point, sign-exponent and posits are unregulated.

anyone with a functional government.

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