The AI Compute Race Glossary Frontier turnover

Frontier turnover

What does “Frontier turnover” mean?

Frontier turnover

See clocks of diffusion.

Clocks of diffusion The three rates, measured in chapter 1, at which a frontier lead spreads to rivals. They are frontier turnover from model to model at the American frontier, capability catch-up by open-weight models, and the national frontier lag of China’s frontier behind America’s. Chapter 1.

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Dryburgh, Lee S. “Frontier turnover.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/frontier-turnover (accessed 2026-11-01).

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@misc{dryburgh-frontier-turnover-2026,
  author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
  title = {{Frontier turnover}},
  howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/frontier-turnover},
  note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}

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