Why AI Hasn't Boosted Growth Yet: It's a Function of Global Inference Capacity
zephyr_z9 · x · 2026-09-09
Commenter theojaffee asks why frontier models still haven't meaningfully accelerated economic growth. zephyrz9 offers a terse answer: it's literally a function of how much inference capacity exists globally.
The implication: the bottleneck isn't model intelligence but the sheer scale of deployed compute — a supply-side infrastructure constraint.
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