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Gradient Updates is our weekly newsletter led by senior researcher Ege Erdil, where we focus on providing shorter-form commentary on important issues around AI. Readers should expect content that’s less about last week’s AI news and more about long-run trends in the field.
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Mar 28, 2025
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4 min read
The real reason AI benchmarks haven’t reflected economic impacts
Mar 21, 2025
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15 min read
Most AI value will come from broad automation, not from R&D
Mar 07, 2025
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10 min read
What AI can currently do is not the story
Feb 28, 2025
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14 min read
The promise of reasoning models
Feb 21, 2025
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11 min read
AI progress is about to speed up
Feb 14, 2025
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13 min read
Algorithmic progress likely spurs more spending on compute, not less
Feb 07, 2025
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22 min read
How much energy does ChatGPT use?
Jan 31, 2025
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14 min read
What went into training DeepSeek-R1?
Jan 24, 2025
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16 min read
AGI could drive wages below subsistence level
Jan 17, 2025
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12 min read
How has DeepSeek improved the Transformer architecture?
Jan 10, 2025
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16 min read
The economic consequences of automating remote work
Dec 27, 2024
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9 min read
Moravec’s paradox and its implications
Dec 20, 2024
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10 min read
How do mixture-of-experts models compare to dense models in inference?
Dec 13, 2024
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8 min read
Frontier language models have become much smaller
Dec 06, 2024
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8 min read
What did US export controls mean for China’s AI capabilities?