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The least understood driver of AI progress | Epoch AI
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An opinionated guide to “algorithmic progress” and why it matters
The least understood driver of AI progress | Epoch AI Gradient Updates shares more opinionated or informal takes on big questions in AI progress. These posts solely represent the views of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Epoch AI as a whole. AI software progress is one of those things that everyone vaguely knows about, but only a handful of people in the world truly understand its significance. Consider that many of the most fervent debates in AI to date depend enormously on it: How did DeepSeek seem to catch up to OpenAI’s o1 within months while using less training com
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