AI Reports · MIT FutureTech · 2026-10-17 · Blog / commentary
What drives progress in AI? Trends in Data In this article, we provide a high level overview of a key trend in AI models; that AI models’ data requirements may be growing faster than the supply of sui
This article outlines how AI models' data requirements may be growing faster than the supply of suitable data. Annual new data creation grew 32-fold from 2010 to 2020, but this still fails to keep up with demand. Analysis by Epoch suggests several data sources, such as high-quality language data, will be exhausted within the next few years.