A classic OpenAI paper gets credited with helping launch the scaling paradigm
cloneofsimo · x · 2026-07-27
The post revisits a classic OpenAI paper that the author считает central to the scaling paradigm and asks others for the single most influential paper in their own education.
- The author says they keep recommending the same paper and believe it helped start the scaling paradigm.
- They ask others to share the one paper they return to most often across hardware, systems, ML optimization, or LLMs.
- The thread frames the discussion as an educational “greatest hits” list for foundational papers.
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