AI Researcher Jokes Each Ablation Study Now Costs $1 Million

AI researcher Aleksa Gordic remarked that frontier model research feels completely different when each ablation study costs $1 million, a quip about soaring training costs that resonated widely among researchers.

2026-10-18 ~ 2026-10-18 · 2 related posts

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