AI
The AI plateau is mostly a goalpost that keeps moving
Old benchmarks maxed out and the AGI goalposts keep moving, so the AI plateau is mostly an illusion while frontier capability keeps climbing.
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3 stories tagged frontier-ai.
Research
AI capability stopped slowing down. It sped up after 2024
Capability is improving about 15.5 ECI a year, and the rate rose after early 2024. The expected AI plateau never arrived.
Business
The bill for frontier AI is now measured in gigawatts
Frontier AI spending has shifted from clever algorithms to power and concrete. A single gigawatt data center now costs about 30 billion dollars to build.