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Sam Altman Says a Whole Generation of Researchers Held AI Back by Underestimating What Scaling Could Do

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At a Stanford talk, Sam Altman defended LLM scaling and hit back at skeptics, saying a whole generation of researchers slowed the field by underestimating what scaling could do. He cited OpenAI's recent disproof of a mathematical conjecture as evidence. The article Sam Altman says a whole generation of researchers held AI back by underestimating what scaling could do appeared first on The Decoder.
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Sam Altman defends the scaling of large language models at a performance in Stanford and defends himself against LLM critics: an entire generation of researchers has slowed down the field because they were too sure what LLMs could not afford. As proof, he calls OpenAI's latest refutation of a mathematical assumption. The article OpenAI boss Sam Altman thinks scaling large language models for a long time did not appear on The Decoder first.

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the-decoder.de broke the news in Germany on Sunday, June 21, 2026.
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