A researcher pegs the perfect model at 10.5 quadrillion parameters

Claim

DeepMind's Gabriele Berton pegged the perfect language model at over 10.5 quadrillion parameters, roughly 35 per token across the 300 trillion tokens ever written.

Reported metric: 10.5 quadrillion params

Reporting date: 2026-06-15 (not necessarily the event date)

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