AI
The AI plateau is mostly a goalpost that keeps moving
An AI plateau is mostly an illusion: old benchmarks maxed out and the AGI goalposts keep moving, even as the frontier capability curve keeps climbing.
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3 stories tagged frontier-ai.
Research
AI capability stopped slowing down. It sped up after 2024
Model capability is improving about 15.5 ECI a year and the rate rose after early 2024. The expected plateau never arrived, which complicates every roadmap built around one.
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.