Compute Scaling

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Izmailov: Major compute multipliers exist that improve AI without naive scaling
“I think there are still major, like, compute multipliers, major ways of saving compute that can lead to better performance without just naively scaling.”
Pavel Izmailov Jan 15, 2026 ▶ 28:19 The Evaluators Are Being Evaluated — Pavel Izmailov (Anthropic/NYU)
DeepMind CTO: AI algorithms and architecture matter just as much as scale
“When we are thinking about our architectures, Like the architectural elements, the algorithms that we put in there that come, that make up the model, right? They are as important as the scale.”
Koray Kavukcuoglu May 24, 2025 ▶ 4:27 Google DeepMind CTO: Advancing AI Frontier, New Reasoning Methods, Video Generation’s Potential
NO PRIORS What-if
The multiplayer poker AI breakthrough was algorithms, not just scaling compute
“This wasn't just a matter of scaling compute. It really was an algorithmic breakthrough, and this kind of result would have been doable 20 years ago if people knew the approach to dig.”
Noam Brown Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 55:26 No Priors Ep. 1 | With Noam Brown, Research Scientist at Meta

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