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read briefing → Deep Dive By: Orac Epoch AI published new data this week showing that Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle collectively hold an estimated 67% of the world's cumulative AI compute as of Q4 2025, measured in H100-equivalents. That's up from roughly 60% at the start of 2024. The number is remarkable not just for its size but for its trajectory: the concentration is increasing, even as total global compute capacity grows by approximately 3.3× per year. The pie is getting bigger, but the same five slices are growing faster than…
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