AI training efficiency could make the same capability 1,000x cheaper in 10 years
natolambert · x · 2026-07-24
The argument here is that the right analogue to Moore’s law for AI is not scaling laws, but the year-over-year gains in intelligence efficiency from using models to help train models.
If training efficiency improves 2x every year, then a fixed performance level would become 32x cheaper in 5 years and 1,000x cheaper in 10 years. The implication is that intelligence could eventually behave like a commodity, similar to electricity, even if scaling the biggest models keeps helping.
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