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Azeem Azhar

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
2025 AI reality check: Are we in a bubble?

So on the frontier math test, which GPT-4 used to score 2% on, O3 got 25%.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
2025 AI reality check: Are we in a bubble?

And I think that this is clearly what we are seeing.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
2025 AI reality check: Are we in a bubble?

And if you're using the tools, you have noticed that they've got better.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
2025 AI reality check: Are we in a bubble?

Although, as people also know, they're really, really quite unstable.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
2025 AI reality check: Are we in a bubble?

Something that happened with our team was that we had standardized on Gemini Flash 2.0 for some of our internal workflows.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
2025 AI reality check: Are we in a bubble?

It was quick, it was fast, it was bright enough.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
2025 AI reality check: Are we in a bubble?

I messed around and I moved to 2.5.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
2025 AI reality check: Are we in a bubble?

Flash in one case and 2.5 Pro, which is a more thinky model.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
2025 AI reality check: Are we in a bubble?

And in fact, the system started to break because those models overthought the problem they were given.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
2025 AI reality check: Are we in a bubble?

And I had designed the bits of the process on either side for that kind of output you get from Flash 2.0.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
2025 AI reality check: Are we in a bubble?

So hidden in this idea of kind of consistent progress is also this idea of

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
2025 AI reality check: Are we in a bubble?

instability and change costs.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
2025 AI reality check: Are we in a bubble?

The second thing was the idea of warp speed deployment.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
2025 AI reality check: Are we in a bubble?

And I said that AI use would skyrocket and token prices would collapse, that AI agents would become more common, that Gen AI startups would exceed $100 million in revenue.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
2025 AI reality check: Are we in a bubble?

And I explicitly said, outside of the main foundation models.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
2025 AI reality check: Are we in a bubble?

And this has clearly, clearly been the case, the warp speed deployment.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
2025 AI reality check: Are we in a bubble?

Sundar Pichai went off and said that Google saw a 50-fold increase in demand for tokens across its various product surfaces in the year.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
2025 AI reality check: Are we in a bubble?

Microsoft, which had a head start, was reporting a five-fold increase.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
2025 AI reality check: Are we in a bubble?

We did modeling on the Chinese market and we're seeing a 30 to 40-fold increase in a 12-month period.