Will we run out of data?
Will we run out of data? — about 300 trillion tokens of public human-generated text, estimated to be exhausted in 2026–2032
Why it matters
The quantitative reference point for the data-exhaustion discourse
Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”
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