AI companies hit a scaling wall

(Platformer) Over the past week, several stories sourced to people inside the big AI labs have reported that the race to build superintelligence is hitting a wall. Specifically, they say, the approach that has carried the industry from OpenAI’s first large language model to the LLMs we have today has begun to show diminishing returns.

Today, let’s look at what everyone involved is saying — and consider what it means for the AI arms race. While reports that AI scaling laws appear to be technically accurate, they can also be easily misread. For better and for worse, it seems, the development of more powerful AI systems continues to accelerate.