23rd December 2024
There’s been a lot of strange reporting recently about how ‘scaling is hitting a wall’ – in a very narrow sense this is true in that larger models were getting less score improvement on challenging benchmarks than their predecessors, but in a larger sense this is false – techniques like those which power O3 means scaling is continuing (and if anything the curve has steepened), you just now need to account for scaling both within the training of the model and in the compute you spend on it once trained.
Recent articles
- Claude Opus 4.8: "a modest but tangible improvement" - 28th May 2026
- I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit - 27th May 2026
- Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI - 25th May 2026