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title: "Chapter 7, the frontier’s deployment, due 31 December 2027 · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests/2027-15
description: "Chapter 7, the frontier's deployment: due 31 December 2027."
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# Chapter 7, the frontier’s deployment

Due 31 December 2027

**The test.** An audited frontier model trained end to end on domestic Chinese silicon, at a compute budget within a factor of two of the American frontier, weakens the clause that denial slows the frontier’s deployment in China and confirms the clause that durable denial accelerates the ecosystem beneath it. The audit counts only if a party outside the developer publishes it.

open Open. No frontier model has been trained end to end on domestic silicon on the record.

From *The AI Compute Race*. [Read the book](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#buy)

**Falls due:** 31 December 2027

**Read on:** The audit, and Epoch AI’s frontier training series for the American frontier

**Chapter:** [Chapter 7 — The Double Blockade](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-7)Two governments deciding one trade: Washington’s export rules and Beijing’s instructions at the border, and what each did to the chip business it meant to shape.

## What it names

- Campus [Stargate Shackelford / Frontier](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-shackelford-frontier)

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