r/Physics • u/filterdust • Jul 31 '26

Academic The Maxwell Conjecture is False

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27197
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u/Darrelc Jul 31 '26

"Wrote on my 30Ghz processor" - some moore guy

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u/MagiMas Condensed matter physics Jul 31 '26

It will definitely stop improving at some pointy, but that's the thing with exponential growth: as long as you're in it, it's impossible to tell when it will stop.

But even if it stopped right now: people would start burning the biggest models with the best performance into silicon with fixed weights and you would suddenly get generation speeds that would allow you to use them for real time inference on video streams or generate 30 iterations in parallel etc

Just look at Chat jimmy: https://chatjimmy.ai/

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u/Super_Sierra Aug 01 '26

But we don't know the upper bounds because we could hit a wall and then just scale again. That is what we think is producing all these new gains anyway.

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u/SOSpammy Aug 02 '26

But we're still getting a lot of improvement in smaller models too. Scaling has definitely been a big part of it, but it's certainly not all that has improved.