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OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI together used only about 21% of global operational AI compute at the end of 2025, while the w…

Rohan Paul Twitter · Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) · 2026-06-29

EpochAI data shows that OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI collectively consumed only 21% of global operational AI compute at end of 2025, despite approximately 16 million H100-equivalent GPUs being deployed worldwide.

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Topics: ai-computeai-infrastructurefrontier-labsgpu-deployment

Claims

  • OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI together used approximately 21% of global operational AI compute at the end of 2025.
  • Roughly 16 million H100-equivalent GPUs were operationally deployed globally at end of 2025.
  • Roughly 20 million H100-equivalent GPUs had been sold by end of 2025, indicating a deployment lag.

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OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI together used only about 21% of global operational AI compute at the end of 2025, while the world had roughly 16 million deployed H100-equivalents and 20 million sold H100-equivalents.