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title: "Chapter 14, the base case, due 31 August 2027 · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests/2027-9
description: "Chapter 14, the base case: due 31 August 2027."
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# Chapter 14, the base case

Due 31 August 2027

**The test.** Withdrawn if the reading shows construction with fewer than three-quarters of its voting rows for rationing, or capability with a verified research milestone.

held Held so far. Construction has all eight of its voting rows for rationing, two of its ten rows abstaining. The research milestone is unverified on any public record, and OpenAI’s claim of 6 September 2026, on preliminary measurements of its own, is one on which the Scorecard’s row 5 still abstains.

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

**Falls due:** 31 August 2027

**Read on:** The Scorecard’s frozen definitions, at its reading of 31 August 2027

**Chapter:** [Chapter 14 — The Convergence](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-14)One campus, Meta’s Hyperion, run through four possible futures to show how science, power, money and permission meet in the price of an accelerator-hour.

## What it names

- Party [OpenAI](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/openai)

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- Chapter notes [Chapter 14 — The Convergence](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-14)

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*The AI Compute Race: Five Races, One Machine* is a book by Lee S. Dryburgh, the first volume of THE COMPUTE ECONOMY, published by Dryburgh, an imprint of Contestra OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia; its record closes on 8 November 2026.

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