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Dec 21, 2024 · Artificial Intelligence

Is Pre‑training Coming to an End? Evaluating Data Sufficiency

The article examines Ilya Sutskever’s claim that pre‑training will end, argues that scaling laws still hold and data is not yet a bottleneck, highlights the scarcity of high‑quality frontier data, and explains why the industry is shifting toward inference‑time compute (o1) as a more sustainable path for large language models.