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Meek Models Shall Inherit the Earth
Hans Gundlach, Jayson Lynch, Neil Thompson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07931 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Meek Models Shall Inherit the Earth
The past decade has seen incredible scaling of AI systems by a few companies, leading to inequality in AI model performance. This paper argues that, contrary to prevailing intuition, the diminishing returns to compute scaling will lead to a convergence of AI model capabilities. In other words, meek models (those with limited computation budget) shall inherit the earth, approaching the performance level of the best models overall. We develop a model illustrating that under a fixed-distribution n…