Surging token usage in open-weight models may be an early glimpse of recursive self-improvement
omarsar0 · x · 2026-09-07
The author argues that we have yet to see what recursive self-improvement (RSI) will actually look like, but suspects open models will have a lot to do with it. As an early sign, token usage among open-weight models is growing rapidly — a glimpse of what may come.
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