Denny Zhou: Model access and compute now divide researchers more than IQ
denny_zhou · x · 2026-09-10
Denny Zhou, researcher at Google DeepMind, argues the biggest divide in research today is which AI models you can access and how much compute you have — differences in IQ and experience are becoming rounding errors.
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