VC backs Leopold's intelligence explosion thesis: R&D timelines keep compressing, exponential intact
Rewkang · x · 2026-11-06
VC Rewkang argues that whatever happens to Leopold Aschenbrenner's fund, his intelligence-explosion thesis still holds, citing the Situational Awareness chart of effective compute normalized to GPT-4: a steep post-2027 takeoff driven by automated AI research. Core claim: R&D timelines across industries keep compressing, short-term market corrections notwithstanding, the exponential remains intact.
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