AI NEWS YOU MISSED ❗#47

Midjourney

Top 5 stories of the week

1️⃣ Are Scaling Laws Fading in AI?

2️⃣ OpenAI Focus on Advanced Reasoning

3️⃣ Musk’s Supercomputer Jolts AI Rivals

4️⃣ OpenAI readies AI agent release

5️️⃣ Anthropic — AGI by 2026/2027?

Top 5 stories of the week in detail

1️⃣ Are Scaling Laws Fading in AI?

Google

Recent reports suggest OpenAI and rivals may be experiencing diminishing returns from scaling up their models, potentially challenging established scaling laws — which predict consistent performance gains with increased compute — and raising questions about the value of the billions invested in larger AI infrastructures.

Business Insider take:

• OpenAI’s upcoming model, Orion, shows only modest improvement over GPT-4, sparking industry concerns about an AI performance plateau.
• Experts debate whether scaling laws — traditionally…