AI model
also referred to as: ai models
3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 1, 2023 by Benedict Evans · across every show →
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May 1, 2023 positive
Benedict Evans: AI model training costs will drop as efficiency improves
“And those are all, those points on that plot, all of like historically have gone up and to the right, but now they're going to start going down because the models get more efficient and people work out better ways of training them when you optimize all the ind…”
Apr 5, 2025 neutral
Jul 24, 2026 negative
Evans: Claims that prompt engineering is obsolete are 'bullshit'
“People say prompt engineering is gone. Bullshit. Like, the underlying challenge is, how do I work out how I would tell the model how I want to do this? And that's not, it's not like you have to say clever things to understand. Get the model to work in a differ…”