METR finds no convincing near-term blockers to AI capability growth within 12 months
METR_Evals · x · 2026-11-06
One of METR's assessment conclusions: it saw no convincing evidence of significant bottlenecks within the next 12 months across algorithmic progress, training compute, experiment compute, or data. It caveats that its view shifted throughout the assessment, so some bottlenecks may have been missed.
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