AI learning rate and some thoughts - Rik Huijzer

Thinking about solar, battery, chip, and AI cost reduction rates.

AI learning rate and some thoughts - Rik's Weblog ← back 2025-01-31 last update: 2025-05-08 AI learning rate and some thoughts Now that DeepSeek released their new model, I'm thinking again about where AI is heading. For some technologies such as electric cars or batteries, I think I have a reasonable idea of where they are heading thanks to learning curves . Due to price decreases, we will probably see more electric cars, drones, ships , and trucks . Oh, and of course stoves that can boil water in 40 seconds . For AI, I'm not sure. In this blog post, I'll try to estimate the learning curve fo

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