AI Reports · MIT FutureTech · 2026-10-17 · Blog / commentary
What drives progress in AI? Trends in Algorithms In this article, we provide a high level overview of a key trend in AI models: that progress in algorithms leads to performance improvements in AI syst
This article gives an overview of how progress in algorithms leads to performance gains in AI systems. It is the second in a series on AI trends. The compute needed to reach a given level of AI performance has been estimated to halve roughly every 8 months.