New arXiv Paper Proposes Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Efficiency of Local AI
yogthos · reddit · 2026-09-16
A Reddit post shares arXiv paper 2511.07885, which introduces "Intelligence per Watt" — a metric for measuring how much intelligence a locally-run AI model delivers per unit of power. The framework aims to give local/on-device deployments a unified way to compare models and hardware beyond raw benchmarks.
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