One con­se­quence of the age of scaling is that … scaling sucked out all the air in the room. Because scaling sucked out all the air in the room, everyone started to do the same thing. We got to the point where, we are in a world where there are more com­pa­nies than ideas, by quite a bit.

The age of scaling

What a gimlet line from Ilya Sutskever:

That’s from his appear­ance on Dwarkesh Podcast, which I love. It’s become the sort of “house organ” of the AI industry, or some part of it—the most inter­esting part—produced with curiosity and panache.