The Bitter Lesson Hits Robotics: LLM Scores Double Every 54 Days as Speed Rises 4.4x
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-10-24
A new paper, The Bitter Lesson Comes to Robotics, shared by Anish Gupta and amplified by Miles Brundage, reports that LLM scores on a robotics benchmark double every 53.9 days (July–October 2026), while inference speed rose 4.4x and cost fell 6.2x — general-purpose models rapidly outpacing specialized approaches on both capability and economics.
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