Anthropic researcher: AI labs are just Numberblocks with a bigger compute budget
andrew_n_carr · x · 2026-11-08
Andrew Carr, a researcher at Anthropic, quipped on X that the frontier AI labs "feel like Numberblocks with a bigger compute budget" — a jab comparing massive-compute AI research to the children's math cartoon about walking talking number blocks, mocking the brute-force scaling mindset.
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