Scaling in Inference and RL Training Outperforms Pre-training
tobyordoxford · x · 2026-07-03
Toby Ord notes that by standard AI scaling law metrics, current scaling performance is quite solid: halving the error rate in pre-training requires about 1,000,000x the compute. However, on math benchmarks, both inference scaling and RL training deliver logarithmic improvements. This is the most informative post within the same AISecurityInst discussion.
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