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AI and Efficiency: Algorithmic Progress Halving Training Compute Every 16 Months Since 2012

OpenAI released an analysis showing that compute required to match AlexNet-level ImageNet performance has decreased 44x since 2012, with algorithmic efficiency doubling every 16 months. This outpaces Moore's Law, which would have yielded only an 11x improvement over the same period. The findings suggest that for heavily-invested AI tasks, algorithmic progress is a larger driver of efficiency gains than hardware improvements alone.