Yacine: AI can't get much smarter — only faster from here
yacineMTB · x · 2026-09-15
AI community figure Yacine argued that he doesn't see how AI could get any smarter, with progress now limited to being faster. The one-line take amounts to a skeptical view of current scaling narratives, suggesting remaining gains lie in inference speed rather than raw capability.
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