Epoch AI ✓

@EpochAIResearch

Investigating the trajectory of AI for the benefit of society.

51 732Followers

0Following

2 625Posts total

882.8KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

13 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views6 548this account1 089median for 10K–100K

Reach, %12.66%this account3.50%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.35%this account2.00%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	6 548	1 089	6.01×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	12.66%	3.50%	3.62×
Engagement rate	1.35%	2.00%	0.67×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

791K24 Aug

12.5K

11K

9.9K

6.5K

5.6K

5.1K

6.4K

11.8K

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264

17025 Aug

26326 Aug

Last 13 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.31%24 Aug

1.08%

1.42%

1.37%

1.53%

1.35%

1.53%

1.60%

0.84%

0.54%

10.98%

1.18%25 Aug

0.38%26 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.00%.

What the audience does

Likes74.5%2 892 in total

Reposts8.6%334 in total

Replies2.8%110 in total

Quotes2.9%114 in total

Bookmarks11.1%430 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

@EpochAIResearch @brightertmrrw @DanCareyEcon @pawtrammell @ansonwhho Nice. GDP misses a ton of other measures such as well-being. 263 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 26 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@EpochAIResearch @brightertmrrw @DanCareyEcon @pawtrammell @ansonwhho @threadreaderapp unroll 170 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 25 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@EpochAIResearch Nvidia is so big it's literally breaking US GDP accounting. Designed in America, counted as a foreign import. The AI boom is even larger than the official numbers say. 264 views · 25 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 24 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Read the full report by @brightertmrrw, @DanCareyEcon, @pawtrammell, and @ansonwhho: https://t.co/Tnb6IJJqHV 22.3K views · 108 likes · 3 reposts · 5 replies 24 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

A fix exists: 2025 IMF/UN guidelines reclassify factoryless goods producers like Nvidia as domestic manufacturers, so their foreign sales count as exports. But the last such change took the BEA 5 years to implement. Until then, GDP growth estimates will remain biased downward, 11.8K views · 91 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 24 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

To be certain, we also asked the BEA. They confirmed that, when production follows the route we described, the domestic value of the US-based design work does not enter GDP. This is because the BEA lacks data on overseas transactions of US-owned goods that are “transformed” by 6.4K views · 97 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 24 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Nvidia's value-add isn't recorded anywhere else, either: not in service exports (Nvidia sells goods, not services), nor in "merchanting" (chips are transformed abroad, and that category tracks <$1B/yr). 5.1K views · 75 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 24 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Goods exports? Also, no. Customs records only record goods that cross the US border, and Nvidia's chips are sold while still overseas. US computer exports have spiked, but that's mostly foreign-made GPUs passing through the US to Mexico for server assembly (e.g. Foxconn, for htt 5.6K views · 73 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 24 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

We were surprised to discover tens of billions missing from US GDP accounting. So we checked every place the export could plausibly hide: IP exports? No. Nvidia generally doesn’t sell or license its IP. While we do see a recent $45B spike in IP exports, it traces mostly to tax h 6.5K views · 95 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 24 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

This accounting blind spot is a critical missing piece of a widely accepted story about AI’s economic impact: that AI investment is enormous, but its effect on GDP growth is modest because much of the spending goes to imported technology goods, which subtract from GDP. What's ht 9.9K views · 128 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 24 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

The result: servers enter the US at a price that includes Nvidia's design markup, which is fully counted as an import. But no export is ever recorded; no physical good leaves the US, and no one explicitly pays Nvidia for its IP. The value added by US design simply vanishes from 11K views · 148 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies 24 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Why? It comes down to the supply chain for Nvidia chips. Nvidia chips are designed in the US, but manufactured, assembled, and sold abroad. The chips never touch US soil until they arrive inside imported servers. https://t.co/aN9YCvYuZN 12.5K views · 127 likes · 3 reposts · 4 replies 24 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

We discovered that US GDP statistics miss most of the value Nvidia adds to the US economy. As a result, GDP growth has been understated by ~0.3 percentage points over the last year. https://t.co/skgKN3epEG 791K views · 1.9K likes · 304 reposts · 89 replies 24 Aug 2026 · Open on X →