Frontier AI Research Digest
Weekly curated intelligence from the cutting edge of AI research. LLMs, reasoning, multimodal, agents, alignment — explained and connected.
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Why the LLM Scaling Era Is Over — and What Comes Next
The year LLMs stopped getting bigger and started getting smarter. In May 2025, the AI research community was still buzzing about ever-larger models, ever-bigger training runs, and the seemingly inexorable march toward AGI fueled by GPU clusters the size of data centers. By May 2026, the conversation had fundamentally shifted. Not because scaling stopped working…