Life in the Singularity

Life in the Singularity

AI Research - May 2025

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Matt McDonagh
Jun 11, 2025
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BREAKING NEWS: I got quoted by Naval on X!

After Naval Ravikant became a subscriber and quoted Life in the Singularity our readership increased 5x. Then I was asked to appear on Robert Breedlove’s What is Money podcast.

That made the monthly AI research digest a huge hit, here is last month’s edition if you missed it:

Last month we ended up writing about 3 of the top 5 papers published in AI / ML, here they are for convenience:

Shifting AI Efficiency From Model-Centric to Data-Centric Compression

The Dawn of a New AI Era: Why Smarter Data Beats Bigger Models

The world of Artificial Intelligence has long been dominated by a simple mantra: bigger is better. For years, groundbreaking advances from large language model to image generators were achieved by relentlessly increasing their size—scaling up the number of digital "neurons" or parameters, from millions to hundreds of billions.

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