Smarter Thinking Could Reverse AI's Jevons Paradox, Meta Researcher Argues

Meta researcher lateinteraction argued that smarter thinking could reverse the Jevons paradox in AI compute, while his team's new MENTAT method boosted reasoning-intensive regression by 65%; Jerry Liu separately weighed in on the Jev model debate.

2026-09-20 ~ 2026-09-20 · 3 related posts

• lateinteraction: longer thinking before hard decisions could invert the AI Jevons paradox — lateinteraction · 2026-09-20
• Jerry Liu: Jev is a great model, but 'programmable AI as a new interface' doesn't convince me — lateinteraction · 2026-09-20
• MENTAT boosts reasoning-intensive regression by up to 65%, Khattab team paper shows — lateinteraction · 2026-09-20