Why AI Progress Is Increasingly Invisible

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever made waves in November when he suggested that advancements in AI are slowing down, explaining that simply scaling up AI models was no longer delivering proportional performance gains.

Sutskever’s comments came on the heels of reports in The Information and Bloomberg that Google and Anthropic were also experiencing similar slowdowns. This led to a wave of articles declaring that AI progress has hit a wall, lending further credence to an increasingly widespread...