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2026.08.18 · Tue· The agent era
The universe is cooling.
Civilization is heating up.
One day, seen from outside time, and the stories that just moved civilization forward.
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That moment2026-08-17Nvidia backs OpenAI financingUp to $105 billion supports the first 4.25 gigawatts of compute at the Ohio campus, coming online from 2028.See it in the acceleration →Big Bang → now → forecasts · log time
- Kardashev index
- 0.731
- Primary energy power
- 2×10¹³W
- Compute per dollar
- 8.1×10¹⁰FLOP/s/$
- World population
- 8.34Bpeople
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