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The Epoch Brief - October 8, 2026
Welcome back to the Epoch Brief. In this edition, we’re covering:
- Proliferating agents and plummeting costs. Our new report estimates how many AI agents could soon exist in the world: nearly 2 billion at the upper bound, assuming agent...
Hundreds of millions of AI agents are coming. Is there work for them?
This is a summary of a longer report on our website.
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei has described a future “country of geniuses in a datacenter”, but could we actually see AI spitting out a country’s worth of labor in the next few years?...
AI is getting cheaper faster than any other transformative technology
This is a summary of a longer report on our website.
Would you be surprised if the sticker price on a new car fell from $50,000 to $296 in two years?
Because that’s how fast AI is getting cheaper.
Over the past five years, the pri...
How far behind Nvidia is Huawei?
This is a summary of a more detailed report, available on our website.
The US-China AI competition spans everything from models and data centers to chips and the manufacturing equipment used to make them. Chips and manufacturing equ...
The Epoch Brief - September 12, 2026
Welcome back to the Epoch Brief! It’s been longer between Briefs than usual, so buckle up for a rich edition.
Here’s the full rundown:
- An in-depth report on Huawei’s AI chip roadmap and production capacity, and how it will stack up wi...
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I'm a researcher working on AI Safety! Previously, I worked on threat modeling with Forethought, governance at GovAI, ML research, and cognitive science at MIT.
Isabel Juniewicz is a senior researcher at Epoch AI. She was previously a researcher at Open Philanthropy and at Forethought. She has a masters degree in economics and an undergraduate quadruple major in econ, math, stats and computer science.
Economics Ph.D. student at Yale, working on AI, Innovation, History, Growth.
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A Harvard graduate and former Tarbell Fellow for journalists, I write about AI's growing influence on society.
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I write about the mechanics of AI progress and the societal impacts of AI.
Economist at Epoch AI and the Stanford Digital Economy Lab
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