Ultra-Large AI Models Are Over

The end of "scale is all you need" is near

Ultra-large skyscrapers. Credit: Author via Midjourney

I don’t mean ‘over’ as in “you won’t see a new large AI model ever again” but as in “AI companies have reasons to not pursue them as a core research goal—indefinitely.”

Don’t get me wrong. This article isn’t a critique of the past years—even if I don’t buy the “scale is all you need” argument, I ackno…